Outsider theory : intellectual histories of unorthodox ideas /
"Outsider Theory is a timely book about outlandish ideas, bringing readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the urgency of taking seriously the ideas that might otherwise be regarded as errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. It shows how crucial it is to know how and...
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| Published: | Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018] |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : Enemies of the truth
- Introduction
- Part I. Alien gods. The alien knowledge of Nag Hammadi
- Gnostic materialism
- Part II. Mythomorphoses. So dark, the con of man
- The chalice, the blade, and the bifurcation point
- Part III. Sovereign institutions. Garveyism and its involutions
- The Sade industry
- Part IV. Products of mind. Cartographorrhea : on psychotic maps
- Communities of suspicion : Immanuel Velikovsky and the laws of science
- Coda : Thought from outer space.