The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture - Couverture souple

Shi, David E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820323403 ISBN 13 : 9780820323404

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2001

Synopsis

Looking across three centuries of want and prosperity, war and peace, this work introduces a cast of practitioners and proponents of the simple life, among them Thomas Jefferson, Scott and Helen Nearing, Jimmy Carter and Jane Addams. It finds that nothing is simple about our mercurial devotion to the ideal of plain living and high thinking. Though we may hedge a bit in practice and are now and then driven by motives no deeper than nostalgia, this work stresses that the diverse efforts to avoid anxious social striving and compulsive materialism have been essential to the nation's spiritual health.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

DAVID E. SHI is the president of Furman University, where he is also a professor of history. His books include In Search of the Simple Life, Facing Facts, and The Bell Tower and Beyond.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820323403
• ISBN 13: 9780820323404
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 342
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