Politics of Ecstasy - Couverture souple

Leary, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1579510310 ISBN 13 : 9781579510312

Editeur : Ronin Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Writings that sparkle with the psychedelic revolution. The Politics of Ecstasy is Timothy Leary's most provocative and influential exploration of human consciousness, written during the period from his Harvard days to the Summer of Love. Includes his early pronouncements on the psychedelic movement and his views on social and political ramifications of psychedelic and mystical experience.
Here is the outspoken Playboy interview revealing the sexual power of LSD-a statement that many believe played a key role in provoking Leary's incarceration by the authorities; an early outline of the neurological theory that became Leary's classic eight-circuit model of the human nervous system; an insightful exploration of the life and work of novelist Hermann Hesse; an effervescent dialogue with humorist Paul Krassner; and an impassioned defense of what Leary called "The Fifth Freedom"-the right to get high.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Michael Horowitz The Politics of Ecstasy was originally published in 1968 that turbulent year that registered the assassinations of King and Kennedy, the escalation of the carnage in Vietnam and the anti-war protests in American cities, violent confrontations between police and students in Paris, Prague and Chicago, the demise of the Haight-A shbury and the radicalization of hippies, the rise of the Youth International Party, and the beginning of the Nixon regime. The same year saw the publication of Timothy Leary sfirst books from mainstream publishers: High Priest and The Politics of Ecstasy. In 1968 Leary and his family moved from Millbrook, New York to Laguna Beach, California. He was planning to challenge Ronald Reagan in the next gubernatorial campaign, but six months before Election Day, 1970, he found himself in prison on drug charges facing thirty years incarceration for miniscule amounts of marijuana. In sentencing Leary and denying bail while he appealed the charges, an Orange County judge indicated the real reason for the absurdly long sentence by holding aloft in his courtroom copies of publications containing articles published in this book. The Politics of Ecstasy is a collection of some of Leary smost significant essays and lectures on psychedelic drug eq)erience and the social and political changes that rang in its wake. A bout three-quarters of the chapters had previously been published in magazines, journals and underground newspapers, sometimes with variant tide and text; the remainder were written expressly for the book. The present edition is augmented with graphics from the print media of that lively era.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ronin Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1579510310
• ISBN 13: 9781579510312
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible