Spheres of Awareness

A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art

James Lough, Patricia Herron

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9780761848059
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism

Spheres of Awareness: Wilberian Integral Approaches to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber unites the best of both western and eastern thought and affirms that the stages of consciousness, more refined than that of the reasoning mind, do exist. These stages culminate in awareness of Spirit, or what Buddhism has called Emptiness. Spheres of Awareness shows us how applying Wilber's theoretical templates can broaden and deepen our approaches to literature, philosophy, psychology, and art.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Note on Abbreviations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: “An Integral Via Negativa: What Ken Wilber and his Theories are Not”
• “Integral Literary Theory vs. Adversary Culture”
• “Ken Wilber, Sharon Olds and 9/11: An Integrative Process of Interpretation”
• “The Imagination as a Spiritual Path: Wordsworth’s Integral Way of Knowing”
• “Ken Wilber, Hegel and The Red Badge of Courage”
• “A Larger Truth: The Paradox of Literary Journalism”
• “Alexander Pope’s ‘To a Lady’ and Ken Wilber’s Stance on Gender”
• “When a Hedgehog Sights a Kestrel”
• “What Wilber Gets Wrong about Plotinus”
• “Wilber and Jung: One Map, Two Tastes?”
• “An Eye on Integral Art”
• Notes
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index