| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-05-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 276 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 19.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
Our globalized, "virtual", and hyper-rationalized world is built on denial, the author claims--denial of the fundamental human connection to nature; a sense of place; and an understanding of the body. In this book, Spretnak explains why the fall of communism and the triumph of capitalism have not come close to establishing a new world order and how, until we face the failure of modernism, nothing will change.
Industry Reviews
"Charles Spretnak's 'The Resurgence of the Real' is a remarkable intellectual tour de force, a mordant yet deeply humane critique of where we went wrong in the modern world - and the way forward to a wholesome post-industrial future."
Advertisement - Theodore Roszak
"I turn to Charlene Spretnak for wisdom and perspective....This book is a lighthouse."
other - Terry Tempest Williams
"With this book, Charlene Spretnak takes her place among the great visionary thinkers of our time....Whether you are an activist, a public policy leader, an academic, or are simply interested in breakthrough thinking, this book is a must."
other - Jerry Mander
"A passionate, learned, ennobling, and best of all, a persuasive approach to the future that is neither technophilic nor technophobic."
other - Richard Falk
"Written with great fluency, carefully researched and richly annotated, this is a superb book."
New York Times Book Review - Fritjof Capra (09/21/1997)
The modern search for advancement has damaged society and disconnected us from nature: that's the underlying presumption behind much modern thought. Now consider Spretnak's title, which provides positive assertions of modern changes; from the progress and acceptance of alternative therapies to community efforts at an independence which reflects a love of place. Modern social issues and realities are lovingly presented and analyzed with an eye to facts.
Bulliet
"What Spretnack advocates is a theoretically refined and spiritually enriched 1960s counterculture ideology that tried, and mostly failed, to create an America free of poverty, racism, gender oppression, elite power structures and ecological destruction."
Wagner
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