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Authors: Morris Berman
ISBN-13: 9780393321692, ISBN-10: 039332169X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: June 2001
Edition: Reprint
Morris Berman is a cultural historian and the author of The Twilight of American Culture. He has held a number of university appointments, most recently as Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown—and a surprising solution.
Brilliantly observant, deeply thoughtful ....lucidly argued.
Acknowledgments | xiii | |
Introduction: The American Crisis | 1 | |
1. | Collapse, or Transformation? | 14 |
2. | The Monastic Option | 71 |
Intermezzo: The Testimony of Literature | 91 | |
3. | The Dialectic of Englightenment | 103 |
4. | The Monastic Option in the Twenty-first Century | 132 |
5. | Alternative Visions | 159 |
Notes | 185 | |
Index | 195 |