House of cards: on Ken Wilber's neo-traditionalism. (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bazzano, Manu
• Is Part Of: Self and society. Volume 44:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 145
• Page End: 156
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Wilber -- Integral -- traditionalism; Human potential movement -- Periodicals; Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals; Self-realization (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Human potential movement; Humanistic psychology; Periodicals; 150.198605
• DOI: 10.1080/03060497.2016.1147666
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-0497

Abstract

Abstract : Wilber's writings rely on perennial philosophy and present a traditionalist perspective drawing on selective scholarship. They provide the reader with the illusion of stability and inclusiveness in a field that is instead pluralistic and multi-layered. His perspective is implicitly wedded to political conservatism and to a hierarchical vision of human experience that denies the reality of the body and the transience of life, and is at variance with a progressive counter-tradition and a counter-cosmology whose provisional tenets are highlighted.