PARP 6605 - Literature of Embeddedness

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

This course explores poetry and fiction that address, challenge, and correct the Western philosophical perceptions of a radical discontinuity between humans and nature, between body and mind, between self and the world, and between immanence and transcendence. The selected literature succeeds in various approaches to expressing human experience as embedded in, and indeed constituted by, subtle processes of the Earth community and the entire cosmos. Aspects of orality and literacy are covered. Some of the authors, such as traditional Native Americans, speak from cultures that have never perceived the Western discontinuities. Others create characters who experience a sudden dissolution of false boundaries or gradually find their human-focused consciousness absorbed by and expanded to the far larger dimensions of the cosmological whole.

Credits:

1.00 - 3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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