Getting High
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight
Published in April 2016
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-0-9935628-0-8 (ISBN)
Description
Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground? In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9935628-0-8 (9780993562808)
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A mathematics teacher working in South East London, Kester Brewin has also become one of the leading thinkers on the philosophy of religion and technology. The power of his work lies in the synthesis of ideas from disparate fields, playing the history of piracy off a psychotherapeutic reading of Star Wars, or pushing Harry Potter to play alongside both Batman and Shakespeare's Prospero. Accessible, challenging and richly rewarding, his work has been hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as some of the most courageous and unflinching theological writing of recent years, charting his own path from the orthodox belief of his childhood to a radical death-of-God reading of Christian atheism.