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A Generation Abandoned
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Artikel-Nr:
9780761869122
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
278
Autor:
Peter D. Beaulieu
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe.
A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between this sense of abandonment and our inborn and neglected orientation toward personal worth and the common good (the natural law). Much of what is peddled as “social evolution” today is shown to be a throwback to darker times.
The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the “perfect storm” of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering “arc of history” and a more grounded arc of relations—our rationalized “culture of death” versus a flourishing “human ecology.”
The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the “perfect storm” of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering “arc of history” and a more grounded arc of relations—our rationalized “culture of death” versus a flourishing “human ecology.”
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Are We Really Alone?
Chapter 2: The Packrat Factor
Chapter 3: “Nevertheless, it Moves”
Chapter 4: A “Tiny Whispering Sound”
Chapter 5: The Missing Piece
Chapter 6: Word Games and Mind Traps
Chapter 7: The Family Hearth
Chapter 8: Toward a Human Ecology
Chapter 9: Darwin or Darwin-ism
Chapter 10: Oppenheimer and the Fireball
Chapter 11: The Radiance of Fifty Thousand Suns
Endnotes
Bibliography
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Are We Really Alone?
Chapter 2: The Packrat Factor
Chapter 3: “Nevertheless, it Moves”
Chapter 4: A “Tiny Whispering Sound”
Chapter 5: The Missing Piece
Chapter 6: Word Games and Mind Traps
Chapter 7: The Family Hearth
Chapter 8: Toward a Human Ecology
Chapter 9: Darwin or Darwin-ism
Chapter 10: Oppenheimer and the Fireball
Chapter 11: The Radiance of Fifty Thousand Suns
Endnotes
Bibliography