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Twilight of American Culture » (Reprint)

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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

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Author Biography: Morris Berman

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.

Book Synopsis

An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown—and a surprising solution.

Christian Science Monitor

Brilliantly observant, deeply thoughtful ....lucidly argued.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsxiii
Introduction: The American Crisis1
1.Collapse, or Transformation?14
2.The Monastic Option71
Intermezzo: The Testimony of Literature91
3.The Dialectic of Englightenment103
4.The Monastic Option in the Twenty-first Century132
5.Alternative Visions159
Notes185
Index195

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