s.i. hayakawa book prize

About the S.I. Hayakawa Book Prize

First given in 2009, the Institute of General Semantics awards the S. I. Hayakawa Book Prize to the most outstanding work published in the past five years on topics of direct relevance to the discipline of general semantics. 

OCT. 30, 2025 

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"As the world wrestles with political chaos, conspiracy culture, and polarized thinking, Robert Anton Wilson's ideas have never been more urgent. Gabriel Kennedy's award-winning biography, Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, brings this visionary thinker to life.

The book has won the 2025 S.I. Hayakawa Book Award, honoring its outstanding contribution to the study of language, communication, and interdisciplinary thought.

The first full-length biography of countercultural icon Robert Anton Wilson — author of Cosmic Trigger and co-author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy — Chapel Perilous explores his lifelong engagement with magick, anarchism, language, and consciousness. Wilson's ideas about perception, belief, and reality tunnels remain crucial for understanding today's political and cultural madness."