Title: Counterculture through the ages : from Abraham to acid house /
Authors: Sirius, R. U., 1952-; Joy, Dan.; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.
Publisher: Villard,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Counterculture History.
Abstract: "As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture-but until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history's great blind spots. Pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy." "With scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles. Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century-Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women's liberation, punk rock-to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we've been ... and where we're going. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Abraham and Prometheus : mythic counterculture rebels -- A different type of human excellence : defining counterculture -- Politically incorrect : Socrates and the Socratic counterculture -- Leap into the boundless : Taoism -- The hand that stopped the mind : the Zen counterculture -- Love and evolution : the occult counterculture of the Sufis -- Remaking love : the troubadours and the heretic spirit of Provence -- Cultural and political revolution : the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- To each his own god : the American Transcendentalists -- Brilliant storms of laughter : Bohemian Paris, 1900-1940 -- Rebels without a cause : the 1950s -- When you change with every new day : the youth counterculture, 1960-1967 -- Wild in the streets : the youth counterculture, 1968-1972 -- That which does not kill me makes me hipper : the hedonist/nihilist countercultures of the 1970s -- Global.digital.doomed? : counterculture leans into the future.