Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / (Record no. 234328)

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International Standard Book Number 9780692725474
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Classification number E169.12
Item number .O53 2016
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Classification number 973.932
Edition number 23
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Personal name O'Neill, Tom,
Relator term author.
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Title Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Tom O'Neill.
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore, Maryland :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project Muse,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Baltimore, Md. :
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Extent 1 online resource (364 pages).
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index.
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Formatted contents note Our accelerating disinvestment in education -- The growing ascendance of the rich -- Our tenaciously expanding belief in force -- The sense nature can take whatever we dish out -- How the signs of incoherence cohere in pointing toward disintegration -- Skepticism about history -- Skepticism about beauty -- Skepticism about morality -- Skepticism about anything being known absolutely (absolute skepticism) -- "Fundamentalism will save us!" -- "God will save us from ourselves!" -- "The next election (or the one after that) will save us!" -- "I've decided to be a survivor!."
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Summary, etc. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." These words from Yeats's poem "The Second Coming" provide Why the Center Can't Hold with its organizing theme. And although Yeats was describing the grim atmosphere of post-World War I Europe, O'Neill regards the poem's pronouncements as eerily predictive of the state of the world as we are currently observing it. O'Neill takes them as predictive of the agency in particular of the United States--the "Center"--in bringing about in the world the more general chaos we are now observing (relative to various refugee and migrant crises, the emergence of sophisticated and even postmodern forms of militant and cyber terrorism, banking and other monetary crises, environmental catastrophes under the aegis of climate change, the defunding of public higher education, the persistence of virulent forms of racism and other types of intolerance, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, the marginalisation and even outright elimination of human labor forces, etc.). O'Neill provides historical analyses that illuminate why this is the case, and he also asks what changes in the United States -- in its politics, in its socio-cultural formations, and in its beliefs and (supposedly common) values -- might help us to avoid the seemingly inevitable (and lamentable) destruction that lies ahead.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Religion and sociology.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
General subdivision Intellectual life
Chronological subdivision 21st century.
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Geographic name United States
General subdivision Civilization.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse,
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Relationship information Print version:
International Standard Book Number 9780692725474
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
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Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76509/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76509/</a>

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