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Where the wasteland ends; politics and transcendence in post industrial society [by] Theodore Roszak.
Author
Roszak, Theodore, 1933-2011
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1973 [©1972]
Description
xxviii, 451 pages 18 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPIA)
CB428 .xR67 1973
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Subject(s)
Civilization, Modern
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1950-
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Series
Anchor Books ; A903.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Where the Wasteland Ends
The Wasteland within and about Us
The Artificial Environment
The Flight from the Primitive
The Urban-Industrial Imperative
The Great Divide
The Technological Coalescence: Its Use and Abuse
Disneyland Is Better
Citadel of Expertise
From Luxury to Convenience to Necessity
The Scientization of Culture
The Systems Approach
The Citadel of Expertise
The Varieties of Technocracy
The New Ship of State
The Strategy of Countervailing Expertise
The Arsenal of Wonders
Detours and Deadends
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
The Sweet and Swinging Life
Waking Up, Being Real: The Mindscape of Single Vision
Psyche and Society
Dark Mind and Dream Thieving
-- The Spectator Senses
The Death-in-Life of the Body
A Revolutionary Mysticism
Single Vision and Newton's Sleep: The Strange Interplay of Objectivity and Alienation
The Sin of Idolatry
In the Eye of the Beholder
"The Heathen in His Blindness ..."
The Death of Magic
Iconoclast Fury and the Kali Yuga
The Degradation of Myth
Idolatry and Damnation
Transcendent Symbolism
A Dead Man's Eyes
The Scientific Revolution: Idolatry Triumphant
Blake ... or Bacon
The Novum Organum
"Here Be Monsters ..."
The Secret of Power-Knowledge
The Desacralization of Nature
The Last Ditch
Fair Bait ... Cruel Trap
Nature in an Objective Key
God Expertly Embalmed
The Veridical Experience
"To Interrogate Nature with Power": The Utilitarian Promise
The Bourgeois Lifestyle
The Egalitarian Ethic
A Passion Called Reason
Mythic Stature
Imaginative Grandeur
Never Two Cultures ... Only One
Science in Extremis: Prospect of an Autopsy
The Slow Death of a Reality Principle
Big Science: The Undoing of the Human Scale
Earth-Rape: The Undoing of Progress
Technocracy: The Undoing of the Open Society
Quantifiable Man: The Undoing of Political Community
The Reductionist Assault: The Undoing of the Mysteries
Esotericism: The Undoing of Shared Culture
Appendix to Chapter 7. The Reductionist Assault : The Automatization of Personality ; Therapy by Terror ; Physical Control of the Mind ; Artificial Intelligence and Mechanistic Counterfeiting ; Brain Extraction and Transplantation ; The Nihilism of the New Biology
A Politics of Eternity
Romantic Perversity
The Romantic Counterpoint
The Defense of Imagination
Mind on Fire: Notes on Three Old Poets
Blake: The Fourfold Vision
Wordsworth: "Nature and the Language of the Sense"
Goethe: The Sensuous Imagination
Uncaging Skylarks: The Meaning of Transcendent Symbols
The Popular History of Aviation
The "Real Thing"
The Secularization of Symbols
The Vision-Flight: Experience and Symbol
The Law of Gravity
"Occult Properties"
The Newtonian Phantasm
Seeing and "Seeing"
Technology and Magic
The Eclipse of Meaning
Rhapsodic Intellect
To Know and to Know
Resonance and Literalism
Dream Meanings
"The First till Last Alshemist"
Oneness: "Objectively Analyzed ... Subjectively Penetrated"
Ecology and the Uses of Mysticism
A Science of Rhapsodic Intellect
The Visionary Commonwealth
The Story So Far
Deurbanization
An Economics of Permanence
"Why Tribe?"
But Where Are The Blueprints?
The Person First
And the Rest of the World ...?
The Next Politics
Apocatastasis.
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0385027389 ((paperback))
9780385027380 ((paperback))
OCLC
646305
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