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A More Perfect Union - Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II (Hardcover)
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A More Perfect Union - Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II (Hardcover)
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In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban
Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in
any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own
bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides.
To counter the use of chemicals-and bombs-the naturalist
articulated a holistic vision. She wrote about a "web of life" that
connected humans to the world around them and argued that actions
taken in one place had consequences elsewhere. Pesticides sprayed
over croplands seep into ground water and move throughout the
ecosystem, harming the environment. Thousands accepted her message,
joined environmental groups, flocked to Earth Day celebrations, and
lobbied for legislative regulation. Carson was not the only
intellectual to offer holistic answers to society's problems. This
book uncovers a holistic sensibility in post-World War II American
culture that both tested the logic of the Cold War and fed some of
the twentieth century's most powerful social movements, from civil
rights to environmentalism to the counterculture. The study
examines six important leaders and institutions that embraced and
put into practice a holistic vision for a peaceful, healthful, and
just world: nature writer Rachel Carson; structural engineer R.
Buckminster Fuller; civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.;
Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin;
humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow; and the Esalen Institute
and its founders, Michael Murphy and Dick Price. Each looked to
whole systems instead of parts and focused on connections,
interdependencies, and integration to create a better world. In the
1960s and 1970s, holistic conceptions and practices infused the
March on Washington, Earth Day, the human potential movement, New
Age spirituality, and alternative medicine. Though dreams of
creating a more perfect world were tempered by economic
inequalities, political corruption, and deep social divisions, this
sensibility influenced American culture in important ways that
continue into the twenty-first century.
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