Description: Spinal Catastrophism : A Secret History, Paperback by Moynihan, Thomas; Grant, Ian Hamilton (FRW), ISBN 1913029565, ISBN-13 9781913029562, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and "organic memory" that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from "railway spine" to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fancifulnotion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
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Book Title: Spinal Catastrophism : a Secret History
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Urbanomic
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Social, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, History & Surveys / Modern
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Science
Item Weight: 10 oz
Author: Thomas Moynihan
Item Length: 6.9 in
Book Series: Urbanomic / Mono Ser.
Item Width: 4.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
