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A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15318-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-15317-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 3, 2019

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Chapter 1Liberal Subjectivity, Religion, and the State

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 1 –32

[This chapter lays out the scope of the book by discussing connections between political unrest in the 1960s and 2019. It lays out a postsecular perspective and argues for an aesthetic approach to the material, connecting philosophical discourse between Europe and the United States and defines...
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Chapter 2Psychedelic Aesthetics, Political Theology, and Religion

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 33 –63

[This chapter frames some of the discursive moves in discussions about political-theological underwriting of liberalism. It argues that taking a longer view of European-inflected thought helps us to see more clearly what is manifested in psychedelic aesthetics. It gives background on the concept...
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Chapter 3European Influences

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 65 –114

[This chapter opens with a brief discussion on shamanism and psychedelics and then moves to discuss Abbie Hoffman’s Woodstock Nation in detail and the particular influences of Herbert Marcuse and Antonin Artaud on psychedelic aesthetics. It gives a close reading of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization...
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Chapter 4The Return to “Nature” and the Problem of the Perennial

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 115 –147

[This chapter addresses the persistence of perennialism in thought and discourse around both psychedelics and aesthetics. Beginning with discussions of tropes about childhood and primitivist thought, it connects the aesthetics of nostalgia to a broader colonialist discourse. More discussion of...
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Chapter 5Theorizing the Psychedelic Experience

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 149 –168

[This chapter addresses nascent discourse around psychedelics from the 1960s. It connects notions of play to earlier European and the popularity of Vedanta with thinkers like Aldous Huxley. It gives a more detailed discussion of the framing of the term “psychedelic.” As well as an account of...
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Chapter 6Psychedelic Citizenship and Re-Enchantment: Affective Aesthetics as Political Instantiation

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 169 –213

[This chapter explicates The Boo Hoo Bible by Art Kleps, then moves on to discuss narrative fiction. Connecting to earlier discussions of play, it covers Hesse’s Glass Bead Game, Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and the influence of literary imagination on psychedelic aesthetics as Tom Wolfe gestured in...
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Chapter 7Aldous Huxley: The Political Theologian

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 215 –262

[This chapter argues that we should think of Aldous Huxley as a political theologian, but that in order to do so we need to take literary aesthetics seriously with respect to political discourse and crises in liberal democracy. This is an echo of the broader argument about aesthetics in Chap. 1....
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Chapter 8Conclusion: Re-Enchantment and Psychedelic Aesthetics

Green, Roger K.

Pages: 263 –277

[This chapter briefly concludes the book by summarizing its contents, while connecting to contemporary thought of figures such as Michael Taussig and Simon Critchley, stressing the need for more literary ways of reading. It analyzes and laments the treatment of Maria Sabina, whose work with...

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