A more perfect union : holistic worldviews and the transformation of American culture after World War II

A more perfect union : holistic worldviews and the transformation of American culture after World War II / Linda Sargent Wood.

Linda Sargent Wood book uncovers a holistic sensibility in post-World War II American culture that both tested the logic of the Cold War & fed some of the twentieth century's most powerful social movements, from civil rights to environmentalism to the counterculture.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Linda Sargent
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Holism.
holism.
Civilization
Holism
Intellectual life
United States > Civilization > 1945-
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : holistic sensibilities in the long 1960s
  • The natural environment : Rachel Carson's web of life
  • The built environment : Buckminster Fuller's spaceship earth
  • The social world : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s beloved community
  • Cosmic dimensions : Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's omega point
  • The psychological realm : Abraham Maslow's self-actualized
  • Individuals and eupsychian community
  • The Esalen Institute : a center for holistic pursuits.

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