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William Irwin Thompson (1938- ) is a writer, social critic, and visionary, especially interested in keeping alive the esoteric, most profound, human and spiritual traditions of mankind, as he sees it. At one time professor of humanities at a New England college, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he left for a more humanized quest. Founded the Lindisfarne Association, think tank and retreat.
Offspring include Evan Thompson, cognitive scientist and professor of philosophy; Hilary; Andrew.
www.williamirwinthompson.nstemp.com. All purpose webpage, biography, bibliography, CV, essays, lists of collaborators, interviews, etc.
www.williamirwinthompson.org
For a representative interview, illustrating the extent of his scholarship AND far-out-ness, read www.levity.com/mavericks/thomson.htm.
Bibliography
- William Irwin Thompson, The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916: A Study of an Ideological Movement. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
- ---- At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture, NY: Harper and Row, 1971. Nominated for National Book Award.
- ---- "The Individual as Institution: The Example of Paolo Soleri." Harper's. 1972.
- ---- Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
- ---- Evil and World Order
- ---- Darkness and Scatterd Light
- ---- The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, NY: St. Martin's Press , 1981,ISBN 0312805128
- ---- Blue Jade from the Morning Star: An Essay and a Cycle of Poems on Quetzalcoatl. West Stockbridge, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1983.
- ---- Islands Out of Time (fiction)
- ---- Pacific Shift
- ---- Gaia, A Way of Knowing (ed)
- ---- Selected Poems, 1959-1980
- ---- Imaginary Ladndscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science
- ---- Gaia Two: Emergence, The New Science of Becoming (ed)
- ---- Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture (co-author, David Spangler). Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1991.
- ---- The American Replacement of Nature: The Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life, NY: Doubleday, 1991, ISBN 0385420250
- ---- World Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems, 1959-1995
- ---- Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, NY: St. Martin's, 1996, 1998, ISBN 0312176929 LoC BF311.T484 1996. Dedication: "For Laurance S. Rockefeller in profound gratitude for more that twenty=two years of friendship and support for the Lindisfarne Association"
- ---- Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Culture
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