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The Barbaric Heart - Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (Paperback): Curtis White The Barbaric Heart - Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (Paperback)
Curtis White
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How can we keep faith in the idea of the United States, whose economy and government seem so thoroughly possessed by what White calls the Barbaric Heart? With his trademark wit, White argues that true resolution of our climate change crisis is likely to come from an unexpected quarter: the arts, religion, and the realm of the moral imagination more generally.

The Barbaric Heart - Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (Hardcover): Curtis White The Barbaric Heart - Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature (Hardcover)
Curtis White
R5,637 Discovery Miles 56 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capitalism and managerial technocracy that created the crisis in the first place. With his trademark wit, White argues that the solution might very well come from an unexpected quarter: the arts, religion, and the realm of the moral imagination.

Spirit of Disobedience - Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work... Spirit of Disobedience - Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work (Paperback)
Curtis White
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, In order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul killing. Although we belong to the world s most affluent society, somehow we never have the chance to ask: How shall we live?With his trademark humor and acerbic wit, White raises this impertinent question. He also debunks the conventional view that liberalism can answer it without drawing on spiritual values. Surveying American popular culture (including "Office Space" and "The Da Vinci Code") to illustrate his points, White urges us to renew our commitment to human fundamentals as articulated by Henry David Thoreau-especially free time, home, and food-and to reclaim Thoreau s spirit of disobedience.Seeking imaginative answers to his central questions, White also interviews John De Graaf ("Affluenza"), James Howard Kunstler ("The Long Emergency") and Michael Ableman ("Fields of Plenty") about their views of the good life in our time."

Transcendent - Art and Dhama in a Time of Collapse (Paperback): Curtis White Transcendent - Art and Dhama in a Time of Collapse (Paperback)
Curtis White
R518 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R100 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Memories of My Father Watching TV (Paperback, 1st ed): Curtis White Memories of My Father Watching TV (Paperback, 1st ed)
Curtis White
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Only in America, and only since the 1950s, has the watching of television become the communal ground, often the battleground, of fathers and sons, as well as the place through which the rest of family experience is played out, fought out, remembered, misremembered, and made into myth and trauma--the shows watched and loved, the shows that became the trigger for resentments, the box of shadowy caves that washed over mute bodies in the "TV room" (formerly known as the "living room"). In the background, as children fit or did not fit into the family mythology of good and bad TV, their budding imaginations recorded every hurt, near hurt, or imagined hurt which silent, depressed, nearly catatonic fathers could inflict upon them.

"Memories of My Father Watching TV" has as its protagonists television shows, around which the personalities of family members are shaped. The shows have a life of their own and become the arena of shared experience. And in Curtis White's hands, they become a son's projections of what he wants for himself and his father through characters in "Combat," "Highway Patrol," "Bonanza," and other television shows (and one movie) from the 1950s and '60s.

Comic in many ways, "Memories" is finally a sad lament of a father-son relationship that is painful and tortured, displayed against a background of what they most shared, the watching of television, the universal American experience.

Monstrous Possibility - An Invitation to Literary Politics (Paperback, 1st ed): Curtis White Monstrous Possibility - An Invitation to Literary Politics (Paperback, 1st ed)
Curtis White
R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White provides a unique collection of essays written in styles ranging from the criti-fictional to the deeply theoretical. These essays are often funny, usually polemical, and always urgent. White creates in these essays a lucid perspective on what it means to be a writer and a human being in the so-called postmodern moment.

Intent on describing and accounting for the impact of theory and pomo on contemporary fiction writing, White contemplates the coincidence of the simultaneous arrival in the 1960s and '70s on American university campuses of writers, poets, continental literary theory and that monstrous creature "Postmodernism."

White's efforts lead him in surprising directions: revealing arguments about postmodernism's politics and ethics; telling critiques of the anti-humanist theories of Louis Althusser, Jean Baudrillard and post-Marxism; trenchant appeals for the continued relevance of Marcuse and Theodor Adorno; and a funny but finally dead-serious reinvocation of the idea of Beauty.

America's Magic Mountain (Paperback, 1st Dalkey Archive ed): Curtis White America's Magic Mountain (Paperback, 1st Dalkey Archive ed)
Curtis White
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A contemporary version of Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain, Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centers. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves of their addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognizable as our own.

Idea of Home (Paperback, 1st Dalkey Archive ed): Curtis White Idea of Home (Paperback, 1st Dalkey Archive ed)
Curtis White
R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Out of stock

In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel. From the vantage point of anoff-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned, The Idea Of Home is a mix of the personal and the philosophical in an energetic collage that would resemble the biographies of Nietzsche and Mark Twain if they had grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s.

Memorials of Roderick White and his Wife, Lucy Blakeslee of Paris Hill, N.Y. - with some account of their American ancestors... Memorials of Roderick White and his Wife, Lucy Blakeslee of Paris Hill, N.Y. - with some account of their American ancestors and a complete record of their descendants (Paperback)
Andrew Curtis White
R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memorials of Roderick White and his Wife, Lucy Blakeslee of Paris Hill, N.Y., With Some Account of Their American Ancestors and... Memorials of Roderick White and his Wife, Lucy Blakeslee of Paris Hill, N.Y., With Some Account of Their American Ancestors and a Complete Record of Their Descendants (Paperback)
Andrew Curtis White
R423 Discovery Miles 4 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes on the Meaning and use of Some Latin Adverbs and Conjunctions as Exemplified in Cicero's De Senectute (Hardcover):... Notes on the Meaning and use of Some Latin Adverbs and Conjunctions as Exemplified in Cicero's De Senectute (Hardcover)
Andrew Curtis White, Harry Caplan
R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed - Re-Imagining Counterculture Today (Hardcover): Curtis White Living In A World That Can't Be Fixed - Re-Imagining Counterculture Today (Hardcover)
Curtis White
R697 R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Save R441 (63%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Middle Mind Why Americans Dont Think for (Hardcover): Curtis White Middle Mind Why Americans Dont Think for (Hardcover)
Curtis White
R391 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R69 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives that he calls the Middle Mind: the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art, technology, and religion. Irreverent, provocative, and far-reaching, White presents a clear vision of this dangerous mindset that threatens America's intellectual and cultural freedoms, concluding with an imperative to reawaken and unleash the once powerful American imagination.

The Middle Mind is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist, contemptuous of the Right's narrowness, and incredulous before the Left's convolutions. It wants to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has bought an SUV with the intent of visiting it. It even understands in some indistinct way how that very SUV spells the Arctic's doom.

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