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

Bennett, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1900486202 ISBN 13 : 9781900486200

Editeur : Headpress, 2002

Synopsis

Politics of the Imagination "Politics of the Imagination "is an account of the life and work of Charles Fort (18741932). Born in Albany, New York, Fort spent almost his entire life searching through periodicals in the New York Public Library and the British Museum, compiling evidence to show that science was a mere faade. In a series of books-"The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, "and "Wild Talents"-Fort argued that science was a new form of social control whose object was to conceal the fantastical nature of the universe by editing out paradoxes, miracles, and paranormal events."Politics "has a foreword by John Keel, whose book "The Mothman Prophecies "is now a major motion pict...

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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: Headpress
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1900486202
• ISBN 13: 9781900486200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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• Personne responsable: non disponible