Thompson, William Irwin
THOMPSON, William Irwin
THOMPSON, William Irwin. American, b. 1938. Genres: Novels, Poetry, History, Intellectual history, Essays. Career: President, Lindisfarne Assn, NYC, 1972-95 (Founder and Director, 1972-97). Instructor of Humanities, 1965-66, and Assoc Professor of Humanities, 1966-68, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Assoc Professor of Humanities, 1968- 72, and Professor of Humanities, 1972-73, York University, Toronto; Rockefeller Fellow, California Institute of Integral Studies San Francisco, 1993- 95. Publications: The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916, 1967; At the Edge of History, 1971; Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture, 1974; Evil and World Order, 1976; Darkness and Scattered Light, 1978; The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, 1981; From Nation to Emanation, 1981; Blue Jade from the Morning Star (essay and poems), 1983; Islands Out of Time (novel), 1985; Pacific Shift, 1986; Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myths and Science, 1989; Selected Poems 1959-1989, 1990; (ed) Gaia: A Way of Knowing, 1987; (ed) Gaia Two: Emergence, the New Science of Becoming, 1991; (co-author) Reimagi- nation of the World, 1991; The American Replacement of Nature, 1991; Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness, 1996; Worlds Interpenetrating and Apart: Poems 1959-1996, 1997; Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution, 2001. Address: The Ross School, 18 Goodfriend Dr, East Hampton, NY 11937, U.S.A.