1st Edition
Spirit of Disobedience Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work
By Curtis White
Copyright 2007
183 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
183 Pages
by
Routledge
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Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values. As Curtis White puts it, “In order to live, you will be asked to do what is no good, what is absurd, trivial, demeaning, and soul... Read more
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagination Dead Imagine -- Chapter 2 Beyond the Golden Rule -- Chapter 3 Confessions of a Holy Whore -- Chapter 4 The Spirit of Disobedience -- Chapter 5 A New Fundamentalism: Time, Home, and Food -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author
Biography
Dubbed “a splendidly cranky academic” by Molly Ivins, novelistand social critic CURTIS WHITE is a professor of English at IllinoisState University. His previous book, The Middle Mind: Why AmericansDon’t Think for Themselves, was widely acclaimed. His otherbooks include Monstrous Possibility, Requiem, Memories of My FatherWatching TV, and The Idea of Home. His essays have appeared inmany publications, including Harper’s Magazine and The VillageVoice. He lives in Normal, Illinois, with his wife Georganne Rundbladand their five psittacine companions.183
