RT Book
T1 The mark of the sacred
T2 Cultural Memory in the Present
A1 Dupuy, Jean-Pierre 1941-
A2 DeBevoise, M. B.
LA English
PP Palo Alto
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/76802255X
AB Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls ""enlightened doomsaying,"" has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our ho
OP 239
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN BL60
SN 978-0-8047-7689-9
K1 Electronic books