A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics Enchant
Arguing that we ought to look to psychedelic aesthetics of the 1960s in relation to current crises in liberal democracy, this book emphasizes the intersection of European thought and the psychedelic. The first half of the book focuses on philosophical inf
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A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics
Roger K. Green
A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics Enchanted Citizens
Roger K. Green Department of English Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, CO, USA
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to the committee who oversaw my dissertation version of some of this material: Clark Davis, Linda Bensel-Meyers, and Laird Hunt, as well as Carl Raschke, who participated as an outside reader. Much of my work on political theology began at the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory in 2011 in Victoria Kahn’s seminar. Alexandra Hennessey Olsen oversaw some of my ancient mythological work. Thanks to Selah Saterstrom for many discussions, writing, and re-enchantment. Thanks to Rob Gilmor, Kristy Firebaugh, and Daniel Singer for writing workshops and to Joshua Ramos for discussions about religious theory. I am indebted to professors who supported me early on: Joan Griffin, Elizabeth Holtze, Cindy Carlson, Jake Adam York, Ron Miles, Catherine Kemp, Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Robert Metcalf. I am thankful for the aesthetic engagements with Adam Lerner and Sarah Baie of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver and the Belmar Lab, and musical aesthetics discussions with Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde, Giles Hall, my C
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