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Book SynopsisThis book moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber, unites the best of both western and eastern thought and affirms that the stages of consciousness, more refined than that of the reasoning mind, do exist.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Note on Abbreviations Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction: "An Integral Via Negativa: What Ken Wilber is Not" Chapter 5 "Integral Literary Theory vs. Adversary Culture" Chapter 6 "Ken Wilber, Sharon Olds and 9/11: An Integrative Process of Interpretation" Chapter 7 "The Imagination as a Spiritual Path: Wordsworth's Integral Way of Knowing" Chapter 8 "Ken Wilber, Hegel and The Red Badge of Courage" Chapter 9 "A Larger Truth: The Paradox of Literary Journalism" Chapter 10 "Alexander Pope's 'To a Lady' and Ken Wilber's Stance on Gender" Chapter 11 "When a Hedgehog Sights a Kestrel: Murdoch, Wilber and a 'Strong, Agile Realism" Chapter 12 "What Wilber gets wrong about Plotinus" Chapter 13 "Wilber and Jung: One Map, Two Tastes?" Chapter 14 "An Eye on Integral Art" Chapter 15 Notes