ISBN:
9781538181539
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages)
Series Statement:
World social change
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scott, Peter Dale Reading the dream
DDC:
303.4
Abstract:
This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Note about the Cover Image -- Acknowledgments, Leading to a Very Brief Note on Method -- Introduction -- Enlightenment -- The Sh'ma, the Three Refuges, and the Axial Moment -- The Lord's Prayer: A Second Pivotal Shift -- Yang and Yin: Torah, Psalter, and Disruption -- Yang and Yin in the Polis: The Pre-Socratics and Plato -- Yang and Yin in Hellas: The Post-Socratic Philosophers -- Yin and Yang in Alexandria: The Song of Songs -- Virgil as Prophet of the Second Pivotal Shift -- Endarkenment -- Disruptive Shifts in the Evolution of Culture -- Earlier Dark (Yin) Ages, Disruptions, and Mnemohistory -- Benign Cultural Progress in the Third Pivotal Shift: The Dark Age -- Secular and Spiritual Power -- St. Martin and the Diminution of Social Violence -- Augustine as Prophet of the Third Pivotal Shift -- Bede, Alcuin, and the Waning of the Dark Age -- End of the Poem in Prose -- A Personal Note after Finishing This Book -- Four Poems -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.
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