Raia Courtenay The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siиcle 9780226635354

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Автор: Raia Courtenay
Название: The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siиcle
ISBN: 9780226635354
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

История религии

Христианство

Христианский мистицизм

История естественных наук

Мистика, магия и ритуалы

ISBN-10: 022663535X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 440
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 17.06.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 227 x 163 x 24
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Faith, science, and the supernatural mind in the victorian fin de si cle
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The Society for Psychical Research was established in 1882 to further the scientific study of consciousness, but it arose in the surf of a larger cultural need. Victorians were on the hunt for self-understanding. Mesmerists, spiritualists, and other romantic seekers roamed sunken landscapes of entrancement, and when psychology was finally ready to confront these altered states, psychical research was adopted as an experimental vanguard. Far from a rejected science, it was a necessary heterodoxy, probing mysteries as diverse as telepathy, hypnosis, and even s ance phenomena. Its investigators sought facts far afield of physical laws: evidence of a transcendent, irreducible mind.

The New Prometheans traces the evolution of psychical research through the intertwining biographies of four men: chemist Sir William Crookes, depth psychologist Frederic Myers, ether physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and anthropologist Andrew Lang. All past presidents of the society, these men brought psychical research beyond academic circles and into the public square, making it part of a shared, far-reaching examination of science and society. By layering their papers, textbooks, and lectures with more intimate texts like diaries, letters, and literary compositions, Courtenay Raia returns us to a critical juncture in the history of secularization, the last great gesture of reconciliation between science and sacred truths.

The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siиcle, Raia Courtenay