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Tamdgidi, Mohammad-Hossein.

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Mysticism and utopia: Towards the sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture (a study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim) (Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mysticism and utopia: Towards the sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture (a study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim) (Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff)./
Author:	Tamdgidi, Mohammad-Hossein.
Description:	1111 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Dale W. Tomich.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Architecture. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3074476
ISBN:	0493943552

Mysticism and utopia: Towards the sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture (a study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim) (Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff).
Tamdgidi, Mohammad-Hossein.

Mysticism and utopia: Towards the sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture (a study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim) (Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff). - 1111 p.

Adviser: Dale W. Tomich.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002.

This dissertation explores in an integrative world-historical framework the underlying paradigmatic causes of failure of past utopistic efforts towards a just global society. The conceptual structures of three western utopian, eastern mystical, and academic approaches represented in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim are studied using a postdeterminist dialectical methodology.

ISBN: 0493943552Subjects--Topical Terms:

523581
Architecture.

Mysticism and utopia: Towards the sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture (a study in Marx, Gurdjieff, and Mannheim) (Karl Marx, Karl Mannheim, Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff).
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520 $a Contributions are: (1) problematizing Marx's dialectic itself as a cause of failures of his doctrine; (2) an independent academic assessment of the teaching of Gurdjieff, the Caucasian mystic, using all his writings; (3) transforming Mannheim's sociology of knowledge into a sociology of self knowledge to help revitalize his intentions while avoiding his self-defeating arguments; (4) developing a conceptual synthesis beyond the three teachings within an alternative "human architecture" paradigm; (5) advancing a nonreductive dialectical method cognizant of the challenge posed by subconsciousness in mediations of mind and matter.
520 $a A fundamental explanation for human failures in bringing about radical change is found to be the problem of habituation, i.e., the human propensity to become subconsciously attached to sensations, ideas, feelings, things, relations, and processes. The key obstacles are identified as the habituated dualisms of mind/matter, self/society, and theory/practice---responsible for the world-historical splitting of the essentially creative human search for the good life into mutually alienated philosophical utopian, religious mystical, and scientific academic movements corresponding to the transitions from ancient civilizations to classical political, medieval cultural, and modern economic empires. The good life cannot be the gift of a wise few, of supernatural forces beyond, or of an objectively preordained progress. Human de-alienation can only be an artful endeavor by each and all---only creative humanism can overcome the habituated fragmentations of utopistic efforts in favor of the good life.
520 $a The study posits that all dualisms can be transcended through their re-articulation as manifestations of part-whole dialectics. The habituated definition of society as "multiple" ethno-national or civilizational systems of relations among "individuals" is rejected in favor of its definition as a singular world-historical ensemble of intra-, inter-, and extrapersonal self relations. It is argued that human life can be harmonious only when it is a world-system of self-determining individualities. World-history is viewed as a process of splitting of human life into a habituated east-west civilizational dualism whose transcendence is dependent on creative, conscious, and intentional human effort. The sociology of self-knowledge and human architecture are introduced as the study and practice of spatiotemporal part/whole dialectics between here-and-now self-identities and world-historical social structures. Utopistics cannot advance without utopistic universities.
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