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One of our most brilliant social critics—and the author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the role of art and philosophy in our cultureThe so-called new atheists, most famously Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made a splash in the new millen­nium. They told the evangelical and the liberal believer that they must give up religion and submit to science.More recently, neuroscientists and their fans in the media have delivered a variation on this message: the mapping of the human brain will soon be completed, and we will know what we are and how we should act. Their faith is that the scientific method provides the best understanding not only of the physical world but also of art, culture, economics, and anything left over. The message is nearly the same as that of the new atheists: submit to science.In short, the rich philosophical debates of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been nearly totally abandoned, argues Curtis White. An atheist himself, White fears what this new turn toward “scientism” will do to our culture if allowed to flourish without challenge. After all, is creativity really just chemicals in the brain? Is it wrong to ponder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is our purpose on Earth?” These were some of the original concerns of the Romantic movement, which pushed back against the dogmas of science in a nearly forgotten era.In this brilliant multipart critique, White aims at a TED talk by a distinguished neuroscientist in which we are told that human thought is merely the product of our “connectome”—neural connections in the brain that are yet to be fully understood . . . He examines the ideas of a widely respected physicist who argues that a new understanding of the origins of the universe trumps all religious and philosophical inquiry . . . and ends with an eloquent defense of the poetry and philosophy of Romanticism, which White believes our technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to rediscover.It’s the only way, he argues, that we can see our world clearly . . . and change it.

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9781612192000 | Melville Pub House, May 28, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: One of our most brilliant social critics—and the author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the role of art and philosophy in our cultureThe so-called new atheists, most famously Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made a splash in the new millen­nium.

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9781612193908 | Melville Pub House, August 5, 2014, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capitalism and managerial technocracy that created the crisis in the first place. With his trademark wit, White argues that the solution might very well come from an unexpected quarter: the arts, religion, and the realm of the moral imagination...read more

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9780981709123 | Polipoint Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capitalism and managerial technocracy that created the crisis in the first place.

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Product Description: Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being. We also find ourselves working more, living in fragmented communities, and neglecting our most basic spiritual and political values...read more

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9780977825318 | Polipoint Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A witty call for a new spiritual foundation in the politics of the American left urges Americans to dedicate themselves to the fundamentals of work, housing, transportation, and food.

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9780981576909 | Polipoint Pr, August 1, 2008, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Trained relentlessly to work and consume, we make daily lifestyle decisions that promote corporate profits more than our own well-being.

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9781564783691 | Dalkey Archive Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $13.95

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Product Description: In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live." This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel...read more

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9781564783707 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 31, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live.
9781557131447 | Sun & Moon Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live.

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A lighthearted examination of the current decline in American imagination in such fields as the media, politics, and technology considers how modern practices toward following a 'path of least resistance' enables inconsistent or less responsible behavior. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780060524364 | 1 edition (Harper San Francisco, September 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Examines the current decline in American imagination in such fields as the media, politics, and technology and how modern practices following a 'path of least reistance' enable inconsistent or less responsible action.

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9780060730598 | Reprint edition (Harperone, October 1, 2004), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A lighthearted examination of the current decline in American imagination in such fields as the media, politics, and technology considers how modern practices toward following a 'path of least resistance' enables inconsistent or less responsible behavior.
9780060581329 | Harper San Francisco, December 1, 2003, cover price $10.01

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Product Description: Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mass for the Dead, this ambitious novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories...read more

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9781564783080 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death.

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Product Description: Thousands of poets from across the Americas have recited their works on the stage of the Guild Complex, Chicago's internationally renowned, cross-cultural literary center. The anthology "Powerlines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex," celebrates the first ten years of the award-winning literary center and its publishing wing, Tia Chucha Press, through the words of some of the poets who provided the artistic foundation upon which the organization was built...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Fiction Collective Two (other contributor), Ronald Sukenick (editor) and Curtis White (editor)

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9781573660808 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Thousands of poets from across the Americas have recited their works on the stage of the Guild Complex, Chicago's internationally renowned, cross-cultural literary center.

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Portrays a relationship between a father and son against the backdrop of the television shows they shared

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9781564781895 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Portrays a relationship between a father and son against the backdrop of the television shows they shared

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Product Description: In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White creates a lucid perspective on what it means to be a writer and a human being in the so-called post-modern moment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781564781901 | Dalkey Archive Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: In Monstrous Possibility Curtis White creates a lucid perspective on what it means to be a writer and a human being in the so-called post-modern moment.

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Product Description: What if Western revolution and Eastern reincarnation were discovered to be the same thing? What if the Hindu classic The Mahabharata and Hugo's Les Miserables were in fact the same book? And what would it feel like if one person were able to experience this epic east/west continuance in one life? This delightfully eccentric novel orbits about the character of one "Siva," a woman who is perhaps a Hindi divinity, probably merely a Midwestern housewife, but also very possibly a porn-queen...read more
By Donald Stuefloten (photographer) and Curtis White

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9781573660020 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What if Western revolution and Eastern reincarnation were discovered to be the same thing?

Product Description: New stories from new and established writers; blending the postmodern, the surreal, the cyberpunk, and other uncharted forms.
By Curtis White (editor)

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9780932511256 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, December 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: New stories from new and established writers; blending the postmodern, the surreal, the cyberpunk, and other uncharted forms.

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9780932511263 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, October 1, 1989, cover price $18.95

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9781557130464 | Signed edition (Sun & Moon Pr, June 1, 1989), cover price $30.00
9781557130457 | Sun & Moon Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Book by White, Curtis

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9781557130440 | Sun & Moon Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by White, Curtis

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Product Description: Private lives of such luminaries as Mahler, Wordsworth, Rosetti, and Debussy are fancifully reconstituted and transformed into fiction.

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9780914590620 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Private lives of such luminaries as Mahler, Wordsworth, Rosetti, and Debussy are fancifully reconstituted and transformed into fiction.

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9780914590637 | Fc2/Black Ice Books, September 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Heretical Songs is a book of historical fictions written by an author with an admitted aversion to historical fact.

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