Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism - Softcover

Blood, Benjamin Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138018198 ISBN 13: 9781138018198

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience, and that he had come to a realisation of the true nature of reality.

This title is the fullest exposition of Blood’s esoteric Christian philosophy-cum-theology, which, though deemed wildly eccentric by commentators both during his lifetime and later in the twentieth century, was nonetheless one of the most influential sources for American mystical-empiricism. In particular, Blood’s thought was a major inspiration for William James, and can be seen to prefigure the latter’s concept of Sciousness directly.

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Benjamin Paul Blood , Horrace Meyer Kallen

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138018198
• ISBN 13: 9781138018198
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312