A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There Is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless - Rilegato

Velasquez, Eduardo

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ISBN 10: 1933859288 ISBN 13: 9781933859286

Casa editrice: Isi Books, 2007

Riassunto

It is tempting to conclude that Americans' anxieties merely constitute a rational reaction to the fearful uncertainties of the post-9/11 world. But in A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse, Eduardo Velasquez reveals that the roots of these anxieties lie much deeper in our collective psyche. His astonishing thesis is that when we peer into contemporary artists' creative depiction of our sensibilities we discover that the antagonisms which fuel both sides in our so-called cultural war stem from the same source. Enthusiastic religions and dogmatic science, the flourishing of scientific reason and the fascination with mystical darkness, cultural triumphalism and multicultural ideology - all are sustained by the same thing: a tenacious, if sometimes unacknowledged, commitment to the basic tenets of the Enlightenment.

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L'autore:

Eduardo Velásquez teaches political philosophy, science and the arts, literature, and popular culture at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He has taught or held residence at Lake Forest College, the University of Chicago, Haverford College, the University of Edinburgh, University College, Oxford, and at Denmark’s International Study Program, affiliated with The University of Copenhagen. He received his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, all in political science. He is the editor of Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times and Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics.

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Book by Velasquez Eduardo

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• Editore: Isi Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933859288
• ISBN 13: 9781933859286
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 174