The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People

This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppressed minorities. He demonstrates that Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Lech Walesa share an ethic that is, at once, plebeian in origin and yet sublime in aspiration.

About the author

Robert Inchausti is Professor of English at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo. He is the author of Thomas Merton's American Prophecy and The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People, both also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Inchausti
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.1991
• EAN: 9780791406786
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0678-6
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 282 g
• Series: Suny Series in Constructive Po; Suny Series in Constructive Po; Suny Constructive Postmodern T
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries