In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high art but also, strikingly, in the mass culture of puppets, horror-fantasy literature, and cyborgs: from the works of Kleist, Poe, Musil, and Lovecraft to Philip K. Dick and virtual reality simulations.
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In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced in high art but also, strikingly, in the mass culture of puppets, horror-fantasy literature, and cyborgs: from the works of Kleist, Poe, Musil, and Lovecraft to Philip K. Dick and virtual reality simulations.
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Add this copy of The Secret Life of Puppets to cart. $49.78, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Harvard University Press.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 350 pages. Bibliographical References, Index. Illustrated with black and white drawings, engravings and photographs. Presumed first edition, with no additional printings listed. A look at western culture writ large as continuum between two modalities: the transcendental and spiritual and the scientific and reason based, and their relative positions of ascendancy and retreat as they play out in the modern era. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Dust-jacket now in new Brodart cover. As new in an as new dust-jacket.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover edition, as pictured. ISBN #0674006305. Some yellow spots on inside dust jacket. Slight cover wear. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 350 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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