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Overview"In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an ""ecological postmodern"" ethos is emerging in the 1990s. the creative cosmos, and the complex sense of place."" Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we think about living in the modern world." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Charlene SpretnakPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780415922982ISBN 10: 0415922984 Pages: 292 Publication Date: 01 March 1999 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 Epochal Rumblings In The 1990s; Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of Modern Ideologies of Denial; Chapter 3 Prometheus on the Rebound; Chapter 4 Don’t Call It Romanticism!; Chapter 5 Embracing the Real;ReviewsChallenging and engaging on every page....Written with great fluency, carefully researched and richly annotated, this is a superb book. <br>- Los Angeles Times (Chosen as one of the 100 Best Books of the Year ) <br> In her far-ranging, in-depth study, Spretnak joins the ranks of gifted writers qua intellectual social analysts like Lewis Mumford...Economics, politics, history, sociology, aesthetics, and psychology are [all] brought to bear...lively, accessible, and challenging. <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> The well-trod ground of ecospiritualism is trundled over once again by Spretnak (The Politics of Women's Spirituality, 1981, etc.). Modernism is Spretnak's unoriginal bugbear: It can be found tattering the social fabric; it lurks behind the disintegration of the economy, health care, everyday life, ethnic and racial hatreds. Modernism is the deep structure repressing the real, imposing discontinuities between humans and the rest of the natural world, between self and others, between body and mind. Economic expansion and technological innovation, Modernism's frayed mantras, are little but the mechanistic blatherings of an ideology gone sour, Spretnak intones. The body is not a biomachine requiring external intervention upon breakdown; it is a self-correcting energy system. Nature is not simply matter to be acted upon; it is a dynamic, self-regulating cosmos. Place is not just where you are, but an influential ecosocial frame. Yes, yes. The mingling of body-mind/cosmos/place is where Spretnak situates the real, so she mooches about in the theories of chaos, complexity, and Gaia, and in the works of John Ruskin, William Morris, and revolutionary artistic movements to buttress her point. And they are points well taken but here made ponderously and without a whit of humor. The writing is lumbered, and Spretnak comes across as schooimarmish and scolding: Ironically, the counterculture of the sixties was dismissed as romantic even though its ignorance of the Romantics was almost total. She is drawn to the dry, high-minded geologian Thomas Berry, reasonably enough, but her position is impoverished when she ignores the spirited intellectual high jinks of Paul Feyerabend and others who so nimbly eviscerated the notion of modernity. The gist of all this is that life is an interactive phenomenon of planetary and biospheric scale. Stop the presses. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationCharlene Spretnak has written several books on social issues, ecological politics, and spiritual concerns, including Green Politics and States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Columbus, Ohio, she holds degrees from St. Louis University and the University of California at Berkeley. She lectures widely in the United States and Europe. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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