In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit in that realization. But what is this new...
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The Jewish...
"Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible." --Mortimer J. Adler
This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world--from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From...
История, Культурология
The licit ritual use of ayabuasca and the illicit use of cannabis in a Brazilian Amazonian religion
The licit ritual use of ayabuasca and the illicit use of cannabis in a Brazilian Amazonian...
Footbinding for women on China was a curious, painful custom that deformed the foot and kept it from growing more than a few inches in length. This practice may have begun in the tenth century as a whim of the Imperial court; by the twelfth century,...
Культурология
The Mafia’s system of silence in communication, film and literature: perversions of society and transgressions of omerta
The Mafia’s system of silence in communication, film and literature: perversions of society and transgressions of...
Культурология, Мировая художественная культура
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels—and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground between 1960s student radicals and hippie dropouts in...
Культурология
The Making of an Elder Culture: Reflections on the Future of America's Most Audacious Generation
"It is a brilliant and highly original thesis. I commend Roszak for writing the book." - Tom Pochari, World Affairs Monthly
"...sense of optimisim that comes out in this book, where Roszak champions the possibility of restoring that lost commitment...
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture...