Outsider Theory : Intellectual Histories of Questionable Ideas /

"Outsider Theory is a timely book about outlandish ideas, bringing readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the urgency of taking seriously the ideas that might otherwise be regarded as errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. It shows how crucial it is to know how and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Modern.
Intellectual life.
Errors.
Common fallacies.
Facts (Philosophy)
HISTORY > Social History.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Vie intellectuelle > 21e siecle.
Philosophie > 21e siecle.
Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
Philosophie > 20e siecle.
Erreurs.
Erreurs populaires.
Faits (Philosophie)
Intellectual life > 21st century.
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
Intellectual life > 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Enemies of the truth
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Alien gods. The alien knowledge of Nag Hammadi
  • Gnostic materialism
  • Part II: Mythomorphoses. So dark, the con of man
  • The chalice, the blade, and the bifurcation point
  • Part III: Sovereign institutions. Garveyism and its involutions
  • The Sade industry
  • Part IV: Products of mind. Cartographorrhea: on psychotic maps
  • Communities of suspicion: Immanuel Velikovsky and the laws of science
  • Coda: Thought from outer space.

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