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PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300188404

ISBN-139780300188400

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Book TitlePhilosophy of Dreams

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMind & Body, Media Studies, Creative Ability, Dreams

Publication Year2013

GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Social Science, Self-Help, Psychology

AuthorChristoph Turcke

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20.7 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.7 in

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LCCN2013-015739

Reviews"One of Germany's leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of culture and the genesis of mind, Trcke shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory."--Oliver Decker, Universitt Siegen, Praise for the German Edition: "The book covers just two-hundred fifty pages, but they are full to the brim. It remains to hope that "Philosophies des Traums" will be recognized for what it is; the genuine continuation, when not the "Aufhebung" of Freud's theory."--Burkhard Mller, Sddeutsche Zeitung, "An elegant and profound speculation, Philosophy of Dreams recasts Freud's theory of dreams as a theory of human pre-history and its persistence in the technologized mind of the present. Wide-ranging and infinitely stimulating, Türcke presents nothing less than a complex and highly original philosophy of cognition and representation."-Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan, "One of Germany's leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of culture and the genesis of mind, Trcke shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory."-Oliver Decker, Universitt Siegen, "An elegant and profound speculation, Philosophy of Dreams recasts Freud's theory of dreams as a theory of human pre-history and its persistence in the technologized mind of the present. Wide-ranging and infinitely stimulating, Trcke presents nothing less than a complex and highly original philosophy of cognition and representation."--Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan, "An elegant and profound speculation, Philosophy of Dreams recasts Freud's theory of dreams as a theory of human pre-history and its persistence in the technologized mind of the present. Wide-ranging and infinitely stimulating, Trcke presents nothing less than a complex and highly original philosophy of cognition and representation."-Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan, Praise for the German Edition: "The book covers just two-hundred fifty pages, but they are full to the brim. It remains to hope that "Philosophies des Traums" will be recognized for what it is; the genuine continuation, when not the "Aufhebung" of Freud's theory."-Burkhard Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung, "In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Türcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society."--Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover, "In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Trcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society."--Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover, "One of Germany's leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of culture and the genesis of mind, Türcke shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory."-Oliver Decker, Universität Siegen, "One of Germany's leading intellectuals reconstructs the process of civilization in this masterful and original new book. Attempting to understand both the genesis of culture and the genesis of mind, Türcke shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory."--Oliver Decker, Universität Siegen, "In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Türcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society."-Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover, "An elegant and profound speculation, Philosophy of Dreams recasts Freud's theory of dreams as a theory of human pre-history and its persistence in the technologized mind of the present. Wide-ranging and infinitely stimulating, Türcke presents nothing less than a complex and highly original philosophy of cognition and representation."--Silke-Maria Weineck, University of Michigan, "In this discussable, provocative, and exhilarating essay on the origins of culture, Christoph Trcke brilliantly combines a general theory of culture with a sharp critique of present society."-Detlev Claussen, Leibniz University of Hannover, Praise for the German Edition: "The book covers just two-hundred fifty pages, but they are full to the brim. It remains to hope that "Philosophies des Traums" will be recognized for what it is; the genuine continuation, when not the "Aufhebung" of Freud's theory."--Burkhard Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Praise for the German Edition: "The book covers just two-hundred fifty pages, but they are full to the brim. It remains to hope that "Philosophies des Traums" will be recognized for what it is; the genuine continuation, when not the "Aufhebung" of Freud's theory."-Burkhard Mller, Sddeutsche Zeitung

SynopsisA sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Türcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. Türcke's essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it., A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? In this wide-ranging and ambitious essay, Christoph T rcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, T rcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that breaks down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness. T rcke's essay ends with a sobering indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social and economic deregulations that have accompanied it., A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology

LC Classification NumberBF1078.T8713 2013