A More Perfect Union
Holistic Worldviews and the Transformation of American Culture after World War II
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 October 2012
- ISBN 9780199922888
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 234x155x20 mm
- Weight 522 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 b/w halftones 0
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Short description:
This book uncovers a holistic sensibility in post-World War II American culture that challenged Cold War logic and fed some of the century's most powerful social movements. This impulse is illustrated by focusing on Rachel Carson, Buckminster Fuller, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Maslow, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the Esalen Institute.
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In 1962, when the Cold War threatened to ignite in the Cuban Missile Crisis, when more nuclear test bombs were detonated than in any other year in history, Rachel Carson released her own bombshell, Silent Spring, to challenge society's use of pesticides. To counter the use of chemicals--and bombs--the naturalist articulated a holistic vision. She wrote about a "web of life" that connected humans to the world around them and argued that actions taken in one place had consequences elsewhere. Thousands accepted her message, joined environmental groups, flocked to Earth Day celebrations, and lobbied for legislative regulation.
Carson was not the only intellectual to offer holistic answers to society's problems. This book uncovers a sensibility in post-World War II American culture that both tested the logic of the Cold War and fed some of the twentieth century's most powerful social movements, from civil rights to environmentalism to the counterculture. The study examines important leaders and institutions that embraced and put into practice a holistic vision for a peaceful, healthful, and just world: nature writer Rachel Carson, structural engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, and the Esalen Institute and its founders, Michael Murphy and Dick Price. Each looked to whole systems instead of parts and focused on connections, interdependencies, and integration to create a better world.
Though the '60s dreams of creating a more perfect world were tempered by economic inequalities, political corruption, and deep social divisions, this holistic sensibility continues to influence American culture today.
Linda Sargent Wood has produced a creative history of post-World War II American culture by centering it on the idea and manifestation of holism... She approaches the topic through five individuals and one institution, each the focus of a chapter of the book. The diversity of these subjects demonstrates well the wide extent of holism in various walks of American life at this time, while their interconnections suggest the multiple ways holism converged. A More Perfect Union prompts a consideration of wholes and parts, communities and individuals, the global and the local.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Holistic Sensibilities in the Long 1960s
Chapter 1: The Natural Environment: Rachel Carson's Web of Life
Chapter 2: The Built Environment: Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth
Chapter 3: The Social World: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Beloved Community
Chapter 4: Cosmic Dimensions: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point
Chapter 5: The Psychological Realm: Abraham Maslow's Self-Actualized Individuals and Eupsychian Community
Chapter 6: The Esalen Institute: A Center for Holistic Pursuits
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
