Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America /

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." These words from Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" provide Why the Center Can't Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O'Neill regards the poem�...

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第一著者: O'Neill, Tom (著者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
シリーズ:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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目次:
  • Our accelerating disinvestment in education
  • The growing ascendance of the rich
  • Our tenaciously expanding belief in force
  • The sense nature can take whatever we dish out
  • How the signs of incoherence cohere in pointing toward disintegration
  • Skepticism about history
  • Skepticism about beauty
  • Skepticism about morality
  • Skepticism about anything being known absolutely (absolute skepticism)
  • "Fundamentalism will save us!"
  • "God will save us from ourselves!"
  • "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!"
  • "I've decided to be a survivor!."