Unsuspecting Souls - The Disappearance of the Human Being (Paperback)

In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when care for human beings began to disappear slowly, and ending with the modern era, when societal events require less person-to-person interaction and introduce radical changes in common attitudes toward death and life, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying. Our days are filled with a continuous bombardment of  information" that demands our attention and brings us out of our world and into a sterile one of inhumanity and abstraction.We've also lost the original sense of a collective consciousness. This loss has been culminating for two centuries now, dating back to the rise of European powers and worldwide colonization. We pick our poisons among several forms of radical fundamentalisms, each one not only a threat to the other but a threat to humanity itself. From references of Edgar Allan Poe to Abu Ghraib, this is a fascinating and worrisome story, impeccably researched and compellingly written.

General

Imprint:	Counterpoint
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Barry Sanders
Dimensions:	220 x 143 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	375
ISBN-13:	978-1-58243-589-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	1-58243-589-8
Barcode:	9781582435893

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