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Title: AMERICAN REPLACEMENT OF NATURE, THE by William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 0-385-42025-0 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: absolutely essential
Comment: Ever felt vaguely creeped out by the utter ubiquity of all things Disney in American life? The corporate behemoth's famously draconian work rules for employees? Its numbing insistence that "it's a small world after all" -- and they've got it all sanitized, packaged and on display for your consumption in the cultural mecca of Orlando, Florida? Its maniacally grinning elevation of "fun" above all other values and goals in the well-lived life? If so, read this book. I've had three copies and have given them all away to friends and acquaintances who've said, "Yeah, I always wondered about that." I agree with the other reviewers that the prescriptive second half of this slim volume is much weaker than the descriptive first half, but those first 80-or-so pages are easily worth the price of admission.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun As Hell To Read!
Comment: An other reviewer mentioned Chomsky. The truth is, Thompson is a brilliant cultural critic/mythopoeic sociologist/poet observer but he is not superior to Chomsky if what you desire is a clearheaded and real world analysis of the forces and powers that are shaping our world. Chomsky is coming from the Enlightenment and Humanist traditions and knows exactly where his knowledge ends and continually informs the reader as to why he is saying what he is saying (he makes himself as transparent as possible). Thompson, by contrast, does the exact opposite. He entertainingly composes poetic banners of thought that are dense with aphoristic insight and cutting philo-historic observations. This is the only book of Thompson's that I've thus far read but I would like to read at least one more. He has a cool style and makes many points that intrigue or promote pondering. This book may best be described as a cross between thoughtful new age and pop philosophy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just read it !
Comment: Reading this book you will be able to undertand America and its myths. Thompson reads America from many perspectives: cognitive sciences, buddhism, continental philosophy,ciberpunk's novels, and keen observations about Epcot and Disney joins in a very intersting way to see America. Neither Baudrillard, nor Virilo, nor Chomsky, nor Lipovestky are so powerful as Thompson is.
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Title: Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture . by David Spangler, William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 0939680920 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth by William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 0940262320 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Coming into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness by William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 0312176929 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology by William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 0892810807 Publisher: Inner Traditions International Pub. Date: November, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Transforming History: A Curriculum for Cultural Evolution by William Irwin Thompson ISBN: 1584200014 Publisher: Lindisfarne Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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