| The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People Contributor(s): Inchausti, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791406776 ISBN-13: 9780791406779 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion |
| Dewey: 291.092 |
| LCCN: 90-40941 |
| Series: Suny Constructive Postmodern Thought |
| Physical Information: 175 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |