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Rebuilding an Enlightened World - Folklorizing America

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Bill Ivey Klappentext Twenty-first century global disorder has been attributed to the collapse of liberalism, the abandonment of the common good, a failure of democracy, and an inexplicable derangement of society. In Rebuilding an Enlightened World, Bill Ivey argues that we are living through the painful and perhaps irreversible end of the Enlightenment. Today, the long-assumed belief in the permanence of an enlightened world is suddenly open to challenge. Human rights, participatory government, and social justice have lost global influence, and a thread of unreason runs from the Taliban, through the Tea Party, to Trump, threatening women's rights, social justice, and democracy. To understand and to counteract the loss of this hard-won marker of human progress, we must set aside embedded explanations and embrace a frame of observation and understanding grounded in the power of belief, legend, and traditional. Even as ordinary people around the world began to push back against the enlightenment, folklorists became more adept at recognizing the primary role of tradition and legend in the conduct of public affairs and everyday life. If we are to salvage the best of the Enlightenment dream, we must understand and ultimately accommodate the pervasive power of informal culture--the customs, norms, and traditional practices that shape all human behavior. Zusammenfassung In Rebuilding an Enlightened World, Bill Ivey explores how folklore offers a unique and compelling new way to understand and counteract the underlying forces disrupting the world today.

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Authors Bill Ivey
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.10.2017
 
EAN 9780253029690
ISBN 978-0-253-02969-0
No. of pages 192
Series Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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