Description
Product ID: | 9781782118787 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Art of Losing Control |
Subtitle: | A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience |
Authors: | Author: Jules Evans |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Popular philosophy, Popular philosophy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A wise, witty and dynamic guide to the philosophy of human ecstasy from the leading expert in the modern science of ecstatic experience Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience? |
Imprint Name: | Canongate Books |
Publisher Name: | Canongate Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-03-01 |