A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens

by Roger K. Green

Book Overview

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, while the second half shifts toward literary and theoretical influences of Aldous Huxley on psychedelic aesthetics. Framed within an emergent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030153177
• ISBN13: 9783030153175
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"