William Irwin Thompson (1938- ) is a writer, social critic, and visionary, especially interested in keeping alive the esoteric, most profound, human and spiritual traditions of mankind, as he sees it. At one time professor of humanities at a New England college, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he left for a more humanized quest. Founded the Lindisfarne Association, think tank and retreat.
Offspring include Evan Thompson, cognitive scientist and professor of philosophy; Hilary; Andrew.
www.williamirwinthompson.nstemp.com. All purpose webpage, biography, bibliography, CV, essays, lists of collaborators, interviews, etc.
---- Imaginary Ladndscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science
---- Gaia Two: Emergence, The New Science of Becoming (ed)
---- Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture (co-author, David Spangler). Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company, 1991.
---- The American Replacement of Nature: The Everyday Acts and Outrageous Evolution of Economic Life, NY: Doubleday, 1991, ISBN 0385420250
---- World Interpenetrating and Apart: Collected Poems, 1959-1995
---- Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, NY: St. Martin's, 1996, 1998, ISBN 0312176929 LoC BF311.T484 1996. Dedication: "For Laurance S. Rockefeller in profound gratitude for more that twenty=two years of friendship and support for the Lindisfarne Association"
---- Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Culture
WilliamIrwinThompson (born 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic.
Thompson is influenced by the Vedantin philosopher Sri Aurobindo, British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Swiss cultural historian Jean Gebser, and media ecologist Marshall McLuhan.
Thompson engages a diverse set of traditions, including esoteric Christianity of Rudolf Steiner, the autopoetic epistemology of Francisco Varela, the endosymbiotic theory of evolution of Lynn Margulis, the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock, the complex systems thought of Stuart Kauffman, the novels of Thomas Pynchon, and mystic David Spangler.
WilliamIrwinThompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly poetry.
Thompson refers to the concepts of kundalini yoga throughout these analyses, and this seems to be the spiritual tradition with which he is most comfortable.
Thompson considers fellow Irishman James Joyce's stylistically experimental novel Finnegans Wake to be "the ultimate novel, indeed, the ultimate book," and also to be the climactic artistic work of the modern period and of the rational mentality.
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