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The Persistence of Purgatory (Hardcover, New)
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The Persistence of Purgatory (Hardcover, New)
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Richard K. Fenn focuses on the significance of time in modern
society, and why we take it so seriously. He traces contemporary
western attitudes toward time back to the doctrine and myth of
Purgatory. Fenn makes a provocative case that especially for
Americans the sense of the scarcity of time is a sign of social
character, shaped by a 'purgatorial complex'. He demonstrates the
impact of Purgatory on Protestant preachers such as Baxter and
Channing, but also argues that Locke's views of religion, education
and the nature of the state can only be understood in this context.
Seriousness about time has become evidence of the good faith of the
citizen. Novelists like Robbins, Mailer, Vonnegut and Brautigan
portray a society that oppresses the individual through time
constraints. For Dickens, America seemed a purgatorial wasteland: a
place where time is always of the essence.
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