Reading the Dream - A Post-Secular History of Enmindment

This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition.

About the author

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading political analyst and poet. His most recent books are The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War, and Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. He has been awarded the Lannan Poetry Award, and former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass wrote that Scott's Coming to Jakarta "is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time." His website can be found at www.peterdalescott.net

Summary

This book is a unique meditation on poetry, history, philosophy, religion, and politics from one of the most important poets of our time. It is the result of decades of deep thinking about the fate of poetry in human history as well as the nature of our shared human condition.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Dale Scott, Scott Peter Dale
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781538181515
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8151-5
• No. of pages: 374
• Series: World Social Change
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; POETRY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Philosophy of Mind, RELIGION / Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Poetry by individual poets, Philosophy of religion, Poetry / poems by individual poets