William Irwin Thompson

William Irwin Thompson’s Followers (33)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

William Irwin Thompson


Born
in Chicago, IL, The United States
January 01, 1938

Website

Genre


William Irwin Thompson is an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He received the Oslo International Poetry Festival Award in 1986. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is the founder of the Lindisfarne Association. ...more

Average rating: 4.08 · 580 ratings · 72 reviews · 50 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Time Falling Bodies Tak...

4.33 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Coming Into Being: Artifact...

4.09 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Imaginary Landscape: Making...

4.31 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
At the Edge of History

4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The American Replacement of...

3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Darkness and scattered ligh...

4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Passages about earth;: An e...

4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
At the Edge of History and ...

4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1989
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Imagination Of An Insur...

3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Islands Out of Time: A Memo...

2.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by William Irwin Thompson…
Quotes by William Irwin Thompson  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”
William Irwin Thompson

“It is not enough to raise consciousness. One must lower the spirit into the earth to embody a change in things as basic as food, shelter, and livelihood.”
William Irwin Thompson

“The acid test is that all paranoids and fundamentalists lack a sense of humor, for humor is a chaos flux and flexibility, of ambiguity and multi-dimensionality, and that kind of erotic liveliness is precisely what the fundamentalist is trying to eliminate in holding rigidly to doctrine.”
William Irwin Thompson



Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite William to Goodreads.