Counterculture through the ages : from Abraham to acid house /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sirius, R. U., 1952-
Other Authors: Joy, Dan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Villard Books, [2004]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of 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.