ISBN:
1582434727
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9781582435893
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9781582434728
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (375 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Unsuspecting Souls : The Disappearance of the Human Being
DDC:
302.5/45091821
Keywords:
Popular culture History
;
Conformity History
;
Social problems History
;
Individuality History
;
Mass society History
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents ; Introduction - Pictures at a Deposition - 1; one - What Is Life? - 25; two - When Death Died - 81; three - A Couple of Sarahs Later - 133; four - No One's Dead - 173; five - There Is Only Life - 237; six - Coney Island and the Mind - 275; seven - The Draculated Cat - 307; endnotes - 339; selected bibliography - 349
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-357) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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