Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of Charles Fort - Couverture rigide

Bennett, Colin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1605200689 ISBN 13 : 9781605200682

Editeur : Cosimo, 2008

Synopsis

A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous phenomena"-"damned" events such rains of frogs, cattle mutilations, and UFO sightings-and studying them from a true outsider's perspective, one that characterized even objective science as wearing blinders in its approach to them. In this modern classic of analytical biography, Colin Bennett examines not only the life of this one-man investigator of real-life X-Files but his work as well, likening him to such diverse figures that loom in the cultural imagination as Lee Harvey Oswald and Shakespeare's Hamlet. A must-read for fans of the strange, this riveting book explores why the 20th century, which gave rise to conspiracy-theory philosophies and widespread distrust of social authority, embraced Fort so wholly that his name has been immortalized in the adjective "Fortean." In the course of a delightfully misspent youth, COLIN BENNETT was employed as both a musician and as a mercenary soldier. He was far better at the second than at the first. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he is the author of the novels Infantryman and The Entertainment Bomb, and paranormal nonfiction including Looking for Orthon, a biography of George Adamski; Politics of the Imagination, a biography of Charles Fort; and An American Demonology, about the head of the 1950s UFO-hunting agency Project Blue Book.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Foreword by John Keel This account of the life and work of Charles Fort (1874-1932) reveals how the man described as the 'foe of science' in his New York Times obituary spent almost his entire life compiling evidence to show that science was a mere facade which concealed as much as it claimed to have discovered. The inspiration behind such authors as Pauwels and Bergier, John Michell and Theodore Sturgeon, as well as the popular magazine Fortean Times, this biography is a timely investigation of both his life and his ideas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1605200689
• ISBN 13: 9781605200682
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible