This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppressed minorities. He demonstrates that Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ...
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This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppressed minorities. He demonstrates that Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Lech Walesa share an ethic that is, at once, plebeian in origin and yet sublime in aspiration.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xi, 175 pp. Contents: Ignorant Perfection; Gandhi: Nonviolence as Poetic Making; Solzhenitsyn: The God Beyond the God That Failed; Wiesel: The Idea of the People After the Holocaust; Mother Teresa: The Plebian Pastoral; Martin Luther King: The Plebeian Sublime; Lech Walesa: Organic Intellectual; The Modernization of Poverty, Stupidity & Family Life: Shared Rejections; Postmodernism: Shared Affirmations.
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Very Good-in wrappers. Purchased from the NY estate of The Exorcist's Ellen Burstyn. Large owner inscription (appears to be from Jean Houston) to half title page addressed to Ellen.; Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought; 8.48 X 6.76 X 0.48 inches; 188 pages.
