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Born in the Summer of His 27th Year
In the summer of 1973, Robert "California Hippy Bob" Hahn embarked on an Odyssey of personal discovery. It consisted of sex, drugs and rock and roll in the middle of the period of Free Love. There was also living in communes, traveling through the forests of British Columbia and Alaska, and learning from a Native American Spiritual Guide, Healer, and true mystic. Home base was a multimillionaire's mansion that provided virtually 24/7 orgies with a continually revolving cast of new good-looking "freaks" (hippies). A rare and frank insight into a unique time in US history, allowing the reader to live through experiences that would seem impossible today.
The Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem
Explores Thaless speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams. Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the Pythagorean theorem. Thales, whom Aristotle called the first philosopher and who was an older contemporary of Pythagoras, posited the principle of a unity from which all things come, and back into which they return upon dissolution. He held that all appearances are only alterations of this basic unity and there can be no change in the cosmos. Such an account requires some fundamental geometric figure out of which appearances are structured. Robert Hahn argues that Thales came to th...
All Clear
Although All Clear will serve as an introduction to Robert Hahn for many readers, this accomplished poet has been perfecting his craft for a quarter of a century. With this colleciton Hahn offers poems that range from sestinas to sharp-edged lyrics, from the meditative drift of "Attending" to the intricate precision of "False Dawn." The settings in All Clear shift from the pastoral to the urban, from Wellfleet Harbor to a Paris street, from an operating room to Chavez Ravine. The figures in the book, including John Huston, Bix Beiderbecke, and J. M. S. Turner, are often artists who altered perceptions of reality by creating their own separate worlds. Ultimately, the radiance of All Clear creates its own transforming vision of the world as we find it.
Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy
Detailed study of how Anaximander’s cosmological and philosophical conceptions were affected by architectural technologies.
Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy
Hahn boldly corrects the misconceptions of Kant's Copernican revolution in philosophy and explains the specific Newtonian model used by Kant to construct his own philosophy in the Critique of Pure Reason. Relying on resources familiar to Kant--Newton's Opticks and Principia and especially Christian von Wolff's commentary on scientific method--Hahn argues that Kant viewed Copernicus as the proponent of a novel hypothesis while seeing Newton as the formulator of a rigorously deductive method. Intellectual revolutions, for Kant, are signaled by the formulation of rigorous deductions. The revolution that Kant proposes to effect in the Critique of Pure Reason is based on Newton's deductive method, not the hypothesis of Copernicus. Thus, the commonplace that Kant effects a Copernican revolution misrepresents Kant's expressed views on the matter, it distorts Kant's view of Copernicus, and it misleads us in our efforts to understand what the revolution in natural science meant to him, as the very model on which his metaphysics rests.
Anaximander and the Architects
Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy—the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B.C.E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques.
No Messages
This collection of poetry by Robert Hahn explores the seams and seamlessness of language and reality. It centres on the circumstances, places and the actions and convictions of historical figures such as John Knox and John Brown.
Anthropology and Public Health
Many serious public health problems confront the world in the new millennium. Anthropology and Public Health examines the critical role of anthropology in four crucial public health domains: (1) anthropological understandings of public health problems such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, and diabetes; (2) anthropological design of public health interventions in areas such as tobacco control and elder care; (3) anthropological evaluations of public health initiatives such as Safe Motherhood and polio eradication; and (4) anthropological critiques of public health policies, including neoliberal health care reforms. As the volume demonstrates, anthropologists provide crucial understandings of public heal...
