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| International Standard Book Number |
9780692725474 |
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(OCoLC)1183730412 |
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MdBmJHUP |
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MdBmJHUP |
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| Classification number |
E169.12 |
| Item number |
.O53 2016 |
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| Classification number |
973.932 |
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23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
O'Neill, Tom, |
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author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America |
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by Tom O'Neill. |
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Project Muse, |
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Project MUSE, |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (xv, 347 pages) |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-337) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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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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Open Access |
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Unrestricted online access |
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star |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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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Description based on print version record. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Capitalism. |
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Religion and sociology. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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United States |
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Intellectual life |
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21st century. |
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United States |
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Civilization. |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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Electronic books. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Electronic books. |
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local |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Project Muse, |
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distributor. |
| 776 18 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780692725474 |
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Project Muse. |
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distributor |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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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> |
