A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics Enchanted Citizens /

• Main Author: Green, Roger K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Aesthetics.; Critical theory.; Religion and Society.; Critical Theory.

Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic. The first half of the book focuses on philosophical influences of Herbert Marcuse and Antonin Artaud...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter One: Liberal Subjectivity, Religion, And The State
• Chapter Two: Psychedelic Aesthetics, Political Theology, And Religion
• Chapter Three: European Influences
• Chapter Four: The Return To 'Nature' And The Problem Of The Perennial
• Chapter Five: Theorizing The Psychedelic Experience
• Chapter Six: Psychedelic Citizenship And Re-Enchantment: Affective Aesthetics As Political Instantiation
• Chapter Seven: Aldous Huxley The Political Theologian
• Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Re-Enchantment And Psychedelic Aesthetics.