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OverviewThis work aims to identify the physical ugliness that defines and homogenizes America's cities, suburbs and countryside. Believing that prevailing assessments of the American landscape are inadequate and injudicious, the author calls into question the conventional wisdom of environmentalists, urban planners, and architects alike. In this examination of what he sees as the ugliness that is the American consumer society, he argues that our aesthetic condition can be fully understood only by explorers of the metaphoric environment. Metaphorically, the ugliness of America's great suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of our increasing narcissim - our egotopia. The ubiquity of psychotherapy as a medium promoting self-indulgence has deified private man as it has demonized public man. The New American Landscape, Miller argues, is no longer the physical manifestation of public and communal values. Instead, its commercialism is a projection of private fantasies and narcissistic self-indulgence. Individual interest and private passions can no longer tolerate, nor even recognize, aesthetic concerns in such a landscape dedicated to uncompromising notions of utility. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Miller , Ashley MontaguPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.250kg ISBN: 9780817309930ISBN 10: 0817309934 Pages: 188 Publication Date: 30 May 1999 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsEgotopia is a marvelous book, and nothing could be more timely. . . . I know of no book that more effectively enables us to understand America's growing disregard of aesthetics and the nature of the psychosis from which our country suffers than Egotopia. --Ashley Montagu, from the Foreword """Egotopia is a marvelous book, and nothing could be more timely. . . . I know of no book that more effectively enables us to understand America's growing disregard of aesthetics and the nature of the psychosis from which our country suffers than Egotopia."" --Ashley Montagu, from the Foreword" Author InformationJohn Miller is a public relations consultant whose writing on public policy and the environment has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He is a cofounder of Washington, D.C.-based Scenic America. Anthropologist, social biologist, and social critic. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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