Philip Wexler

Mystical Society (eBook, ePUB)

An Emerging Social Vision

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Mystical Society Philip Wexler, a well-known critical theorist with a background in social psychology and a special interest in spirituality, examines the revitalization of spirituality manifesting itself in society and in education. Describing what he calls "cultural changes toward the sacred," he documents a cultural shift, brought about by technological and societal changes, toward a new mysticism. Wexler explores the meaning for this new spirituality for our daily lives, for social theory, and for education. From the pervasiveness of a spiritual vernacular to the integration of spiritual practices into our highly individualized and technologized lives, Wexler lays out the evidence for a growing movement, and then draws parallels to periods of mystical revitalization from the past. In the course of this discussion, he draws on the work of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, as well as from contemporary social theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429978401
• Artikelnr.: 52479969

Autorenporträt

Philip Wexler

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mystical Society: Prologue
Religion, Sociology, Education
Interaction: Structure, Discourse, and Being
Mysticism: Analysis and Utopia
2. Society: Informationalism, Mysticism, Revitalization
Informational Society
Religion and Mysticism
Revitalization
Examples
3. Self: Reselfing
Immortal Self
Eliade and Hasidism
Reselfing
Classical Sociology: Religion, Power and Self
Postmodern Self in Society: Melucci and Foucault
A Typology of Reselfing
Self and Structure
4. Criticism: From Culture to Being
Lasch: Social Criticism and the Sacred
Gnosticism and the New Age
Social Ethic of Being
Frankfurt School
Embodied Criticism
Phantasms and Energy
5. Social Theory: From Society to Cosmos
The Social
Social Energy
Beyond Dualism
Reintegration
Education As Embodied Mediation
From the Social to the Cosmic
6. Education: From Postmodernism to Ethnography of Being
Educational Research
Context of Educational Research
Mystical Education
School Ethnography of Being
Prophetic Education
7. Social Interaction: From Alienation to Mysticism
Destruction
Creation
American Religion: Drugs, Nature, Immanence
William James: Over the Threshold to Mystical Revitalization
Hindu Tantrism: New Dynamics of Embodied Mystical Mediation
Hasidism: Individual Redemption and Collective Messianism
Secular Mysticism
8. Epilogue: Mystical Sociology and Beyond
Mystical Sociology
Self
Social Interaction
Society
Pedagogy of Revitalization
"Forgotten Things,"