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The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities de Jeffrey J. Kripal

The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities

Autor Jeffrey J. Kripal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2025

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care The Superhumanities reușește să transforme cercetarea teoretică într-un instrument de recalibrare a realității. Jeffrey J. Kripal propune o aplicabilitate practică a studiilor umaniste care depășește simpla critică socială, invitându-ne să recunoaștem dimensiunea 'supraumantă' a experienței umane — acele momente de precogniție sau stări alterate care au alimentat creativitatea istorică. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru curajul de a aborda ceea ce mediul academic a suprimat adesea: influența fantasticului asupra proceselor cognitive și culturale.

Cartea este organizată riguros, pornind de la o introducere despre geneza acestor idei și avansând către o critică a 'stării de rău' din științele umaniste contemporane, unde adevărul este adesea perceput ca fiind neapărat deprimant. Capitolul despre antropologia apofatică și cel dedicat rescrierii realului oferă o progresie logică spre o viziune holistică a ființei umane ca specie cosmică. Această abordare completează temele din Authors of the Impossible, unde Jeffrey J. Kripal analiza rezistența istoricilor religiei față de paranormal, ducând argumentația mai departe către o metodologie de lucru interdisciplinară.

The Superhumanities acoperă o arie tematică similară cu Posthuman Knowledge de Rosi Braidotti, însă se diferențiază printr-o perspectivă mult mai ancorată în istoria religiilor și în fenomenologia experiențelor imposibile. În timp ce Braidotti se concentrează pe impactul capitalismului cognitiv și al algoritmilor asupra subiectivității, Kripal pune accent pe potențialul evolutiv al conștiinței umane. Credem că această ediție de la University of Chicago Press este esențială pentru a înțelege cum teoriile postcoloniale sau ecocritice pot fi folosite nu doar pentru a demonta structuri vechi, ci pentru a construi un nou cadru ontologic în care umanul și supraumanul coexistă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226845586
ISBN-10: 0226845583
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 1 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților care doresc să depășească limitele criticii tradiționale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă inedită asupra modului în care experiențele subiective 'imposibile' pot fi integrate legitim în discursul academic. Este un argument solid pentru o disciplină umanistă care nu se teme de mister, oferind instrumente teoretice din zona psihanalizei și a teoriilor critice pentru a explora viitorul speciei noastre.

Despre autor

Jeffrey J. Kripal deține catedra J. Newton Rayzor în filozofie și gândire religioasă la Universitatea Rice. Opera sa este marcată de o explorare constantă a frontierelor dintre religie, știință și fenomenele paranormale. În lucrări precum Authors of the Impossible sau The Flip, el a investigat modul în care evenimentele care sfidează explicațiile materialiste modelează cultura umană. Expertiza sa în religie comparată îi permite să navigheze între rigoarea istorică și speculația filozofică, fiind una dintre cele mai influente voci în redefinirea studiilor umaniste contemporane prin prisma experiențelor de frontieră ale conștiinței.

Descriere scurtă

A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to “decolonize reality itself.”

What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the undercurrent of the fantastic within our humanistic disciplines, entirely new cultural worlds and meanings would become possible. That is Jeffrey J. Kripal’s vision for the future—to revive the suppressed dimension of the superhumanities, which consists of rare but real altered states of knowledge that have driven the creative processes of many of our most revered authors, artists, and activists. In Kripal’s telling, the history of the humanities is filled with precognitive dreams, evolving superhumans, and doubled selves. The basic idea of the superhuman, for Kripal, is at the core of who and what the human species has tried to become over millennia and around the planet.
 
After diagnosing the basic malaise of the humanities—that the truth must be depressing—Kripal shows how it can all be done differently. He argues that we have to decolonize reality itself if we are going to take human diversity seriously. Toward this pluralist end, he engages psychoanalytic, Black critical, feminist, postcolonial, queer, and ecocritical theory. He works through objections to the superhumanities while also recognizing the new realities represented by the contemporary sciences. In doing so, he tries to move beyond naysaying practices of critique toward a future that can embrace those critiques within a more holistic view—a view that recognizes the human being as both a social-political animal as well as an evolved cosmic species that understands and experiences itself as something super.

Notă biografică

Jeffrey J. Kripal holds the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters. 

Cuprins

Prologue. Teaching the Superman
Introduction. How the Book Came to Be
1. Legitimate Science Fiction: From the History of Religions to the Superhumanities
2. “The Truth Must Be Depressing”: Immunological Responses of the Intellectual Body
3. The Human as Two: Toward an Apophatic Anthropology
4. Theory as Two: Rewriting the Real
Conclusion. The Solid Rock Was Once Flowing
Epilogue. Phoenix Reborn
Acknowledgments and the Sigil
Notes
Index

Recenzii

"It’s relentlessly fascinating, profoundly important and beautifully written. It should be required reading for everyone who reads books other than computer manuals."

"The Superhumanities marks a turn in Jeffrey Kripal’s oeuvre from the exploratory and theoretical to envisioning the future possibilities and implications of his work for the academy . . . [This book]  is written for an academic audience and is probably best suited for faculty and/or graduate students hoping to become faculty in the humanities."

“The Superhumanities marks a turn in Kripal’s oeuvre from the exploratory and theoretical to envisioning the future possibilities and implications of his work for the academy. This text serves as both a summation of this prolific scholar’s past contributions and a transition to his upcoming historical trilogy on the paranormal and science in America, suggestively and collectively named the Super Story Trilogy.”

"A fascinating exploration of human potential, proposing a view of humans (superhumans) as possessing innate transcendent qualities and, based on that, a paradigm shift for rethinking the humanities as “superhumanities.” The altered states of consciousness and mystical experiences which are often thought of as the experiences of the few chosen people, here become an essential feature of humanity. Kripal argues that this integral feature of humans widely shapes our histories."

"Kripal has written a brave, exciting book that rewards thoughtful discussion, reflection, and engagement. The Superhumanities is a book that changes minds, a book that changes lives."

"[Kripal proposes] de-colonising reality itself and enlarging our understanding of human identity, and hence of meaning  and purpose. This is a major and indeed essential cultural enterprise, and this book is an extraordinary tour de force to this end."

“An electrifying, glorious, loving, and almost deranged romp through humanity’s greatest recurrent ideas and experiences, The Superhumanities is for anyone who senses that the transformative power of books, ideas, and spiritual experiences are intertwined and too often estranged.”

“One of the foremost historians of religion and a consummate storyteller, Kripal makes a compelling case for restoring the anomalous and inexplicable to the heart of inquiry in the humanities. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of education, society, and indeed reality and for all who have experienced or would like to experience amazement.”

“In this magical mystery tour of the superhumanities, Kripal takes us inside and out of the pantheistic, the paranormal, the metaphysical, the extrasensory, the anomalous, the weird, the wonderful, the awe inspiring. Reading the book is an experience—a mind-opening guide to the superhuman and soulful, as you feel where it leads you.”

“Kripal’s recent foray into the troubled waters of the nature of reality and the human may be his greatest work yet. Kripal does not make categorical claims; the end is uncertain, but he does hold space for the hopeful possibility that the superhumanities might help us envision and create a new and more egalitarian world.”

"A fascinating read."