Spiritual Democracy
The Wisdom of Early American Visionaries for the Journey Forward
Exploring what the author calls the shaman-poets-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson-this book demonstrates how far ahead of their times these writers were in forecasting developments of our current time. It was Whitman who first wrote of Spiritual Democracy as a vision of transformation and global equality. Steven Herrmann delves deep into the visionary expressions of this idea of Spiritual Democracy-the realization of the oneness of humanity with the universe and all its forces-in these early American writers, showing the influence the groundbreaking work of the geologist and thinker Alexander Von Humboldt had on Whitman and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58394-834-7
- EAN: 9781583948347
- Produktnummer: 16276307
- Verlag: North Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'617 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 8
Über den Autor
STEVEN HERRMANN'S writing is recognized nationally and internationally. He has published over thirty papers and two books, William Everson: The Shaman's Call (2009) and Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul (2010). He has taught on the subjects of Whitman and Melville at the C. G. Jung Institutes of San Francisco, Chicago, and Zurich, as well as at the Washington Friends of Walt Whitman, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. Herrmann's expertise in Jungian Literary Criticism makes him one of the seminal thinkers in the international field, and a foremost authority on Whitman and Melville in post-Jungian studies. Herrmann, a poet and Jungian psychotherapist, has a clinical practice in Oakland, California.
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