The human prospect. [electronic resource] Edited by Harry T. Moore and Karl W. Deutsch.
Material type: TextSeries: Beacon paperbacks ; 13Publication details: Boston, Beacon Press [1955]Description: 319 p. 21 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 901
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"Essays and other writings ... from ... [the author's] books and previously uncollected magazine articles."
Introduction / Harry T. Moore -- I. The roots of the community -- The monastery and the clock -- The origins of the American mind -- Moby Dick -- 2. Glimpses of the man -- The New York adolescence -- The land and the seasons -- The kitchen - what went on there -- Poems : Consolation in time of war, Fantasia on time, The taste of New England -- 3. Portraits of persons -- "James McMaster" -- Patrick Geddes -- J.E. Spingarn -- Henry Wright -- 4. Art and civilization -- The imperial facade -- The metropolitan milieu -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Surrealism and civilization -- The American in Europe -- Monumentalism, symbolism and style -- 5. Notes for a new age -- Program for survival -- Re-birth of the family -- Culture of the family -- The "new man" and the "new woman" -- Individuation and socialization -- From a money-economy to a life-economy -- The new mutation -- Love and integration -- The renewal of life -- The triumph over systems.
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