Argues that the American Empire has now seen the passage of its most triumphant years and is rapidly approaching a period of increased social chaos in which cultural preservation will be a matter of individual conscience.

The Twilight of American Culture

History

Berman, Morris

Americas

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return. As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled America to greatness―extreme individualism, territorial and economic expansion, and the pursuit of material wealth―are, paradoxically, the nails in our collective coffin. Within a few decades, Berman argues, the United States will be marginalized on the world stage, its hegemony replaced by China or the European Union. With the United States just one terrorist attack away from a police state, Berman's book is a controversial and illuminating look at our current society and its ills.

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

Reference

W.W.Norton&Company

An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown--and a surprising solution. A prophetic examination of Western decline, The Twilight of American Culture provides one of the most caustic and surprising portraits of American society to date. Whether examining the corruption at the heart of modern politics, the "Rambification" of popular entertainment, or the collapse of our school systems, Morris Berman suspects that there is little we can do as a society to arrest the onset of corporate Mass Mind culture. Citing writers as diverse as de Toqueville and DeLillo, he cogently argues that cultural preservation is a matter of individual conscience, and discusses how classical learning might triumph over political correctness with the rise of a "a new monastic individual" --a person who, much like the medieval monk, is willing to retreat from conventional society in order to preserve its literary and historical treasures. "Brilliantly observant, deeply thoughtful . . . . lucidly argued." --Christian Science Monitor

"Provocative...stimulating and insightful."―Publishers Weekly In Dark Ages America, the pundit Morris Berman argues that the nation has entered a dangerous phase in its historical development from which there is no return. As the corporate-consumerist juggernaut that now defines the nation rolls on, the very factors that once propelled America to greatness―extreme individualism, territorial and economic expansion, and the pursuit of material wealth―are, paradoxically, the nails in our collective coffin. Within a few decades, Berman argues, the United States will be marginalized on the world stage, its hegemony replaced by China or the European Union. With the United States just one terrorist attack away from a police state, Berman's book is a controversial and illuminating look at our current society and its ills.

Business & Money

Economics

xxv 223p hardback, dustjacket, this copy with a few pencil marks to text, still very useful

Social Change and Scientific Organization: The Royal Institution 1799-1844

London : Heinemann Educational

An ambitious and provocative analysis of the relationship between culture, mind, and body in the history of Western society, Morris Berman's influential classic Coming to our Senses has been engrossing audiences with its carefully-researched and thoughtful exploration of somatic experience for decades.

Coming to Our Senses

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Coming to Our Senses: Body & Spirit in the Hidden History of the West

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Coming to Our Senses: Body and spirit in the hidden history of the West

Simon & Schuster Books

The impact of US culture on Europe is indisputable. This text argues that the culture of the United States is in decline but it is up to its citizens whether the twilight heralds eternal night or the dawn of a new, more cultural, age. Like ancient Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries, the American Empire has now seen the passage of its most triumphant years and is rapidly approaching a period of increased social chaos. So argues Morris Berman in this damning portrait of American society. Whether examining the corruption at the heart of modern politics, the "Rambification" of popular entertainment, or the collapse of the educational system, Berman's analysis makes clear that there is little Americans can do as a society to arrest the onset of corporate Mass Mind culture. Citing writers as diverse as de Toqueville and Don DeLillo, Berman argues that cultural preservation is a matter of individual conscience, a refusal to base one's life on kitsch or consumerism, profit or self-promotion.

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Presents an analysis of the "nomadic" consciousness of our ancestors, and the forces --religious and political --that overwhelmed it during the Neolithic era, and considers its revival in the twentieth century.The third book in Morris Berman’s much acclaimed trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work which garnered such praise as “solid lessons in the history of ideas” (KIRKUS Reviews), “filled with piquant details” (Common Boundary), and “an informative synthesis and a remarkably friendly, good-natured jeremiad” (The Village Voice). Here, in a remarkable discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the “paradoxical” mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, or secular/sacred immediacy, subsequently got buried by the rise of sedentary civilization, religion, and vertical power relationships.In an integrated tour de force, Wandering God explores the meaning of Paleolithic art, the origins of social inequality, the nature of cross-cultural child rearing, the relationship between women and agriculture, and the world view of present-day nomadic peoples, as well as the emergence of “paradoxical” consciousness in the philosophical writings of the twentieth century.

Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality

State Univ of New York Pr

xxv 223p hardback, well preserved dustjacket, a fresh copy, clean pages, a very good copy

Social Change and Scientific Organization: The Royal Institution, 1799-1844

Sociology

Cornell Univ Pr

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The Twilight of American Culture

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

The Twilight of American Culture

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

Social Change and Scientific Organization: The Royal Institution 1799-1844

Coming to Our Senses

Coming to Our Senses: Body and spirit in the hidden history of the West

The Twilight of American Culture

Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality

Social Change and Scientific Organization: The Royal Institution, 1799-1844