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“paul gilk”

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  • Nature's Unruly Mob

    Farming and the Crisis in Rural Culture

    by Paul Gilk ...
    Growing up in the mostly wooded rural countryside of northern Wisconsin, in the decades immediately after the Second World War, meant immersion in cultural transformation. An economy of subsistence and self-provisioning was rapidly becoming industrialized and commercial. The culture of the local and small-scale was being overpowered by the metropolitan and large-scale. This experience provided the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Picking Fights with the Gods

    A Spiritual Psychoanalysis of Civilization’s Superego

    by Paul Gilk ...
    The common understanding of “apocalypse” suggests End Times, Armageddon, and the end of the world. But the Greek word apokalypsis means none of these things. What it does mean is uncovering, disclosing, and revelatory.That “apocalypse” is so widely misunderstood as predestined disaster isn’t due to natural evolution in meaning. To penetrate the misuse of apokalypsis is to discover mythic ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Green Politics Is Eutopian

    Essays in Anticipation of the Daughter

    by Paul Gilk ...
    Various thinkers have attempted to explain the Earth-altering (even ecocidal) features in modern life. Jacques Ellul, for instance, a French intellectual, became famous for his exposition of "technique." But "technique" does not adequately address the institutional incubation out of which "technique" itself arises. In these essays, Paul Gilk stands on the shoulders of two American scholars in ... Read more

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  • Polemics and Provocations

    Essays in Anticipation of the Daughter

    by Paul Gilk ...
    In the twelfth century, an Italian monk named Joachim caught the attention of the Christian West by announcing the Three Ages of the World. Joachim arrived at his formulation by a meshing of the Christian Trinity with the Old and New Testaments, proclaiming--in sequence--the Age of the Father, the Age of the Son, and the Age of the Holy Spirit. In the early modern period, however, archaeologists ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom of God Is Green

    by Paul Gilk ...
    In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St. Louis, Paul Gilk asked his friends to explain why small farms were dying. The answers did not satisfy. Years of study followed. Through the reading of history, Gilk began to grasp the origins of both horticulture and agriculture, their blossoming into Neolithic agrarian village culture, and the impoundment of the agrarian village by bandit "aristocrats" ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Whole Which Is Greater

    Why the Wisconsin “Uprising” Failed

    Edited by Paul Gilk, David Kast ...
    In November 2010, Republican Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin. In something of a Tea Party sweep, the iconic Russ Feingold lost his seat in the U.S. Senate and the Wisconsin legislature became Republican in both chambers. In early 2011, Governor Walker announced a "budget repair bill" that, among other things, gutted collective bargaining rights for most public sector unions. ... Read more

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    by Erich Fromm ...
    A profound critique of materialism in favor of living with meaning, by the legendary psychoanalyst and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving .Life in the modern age began when people no longer lived at the mercy of nature and instead took control of it. We planted crops so we didn't have to forage, and produced planes, trains, and cars for transport. With telev... ... Read more

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  • On Disobedience

    by Erich Fromm ...
    "Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."—from On DisobedienceOne of the great psychological and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Erich Fromm expounded on the importance of disobedience and the authentic voice of the individual in modern culture. As relevant now as when it was first published, On ... Read more

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  • Great Emergence, The

    How Christianity Is Changing and Why

    by Phyllis Tickle ...
    Every five hundred years, the church cleans out its attic and has a giant rummage sale. Well, not exactly. But according to Phyllis Tickle, this is an accurate summary of the church's massive transitions over time. According to the pattern, we are living in such a time of change right now. Tickle calls it "the Great Emergence"--a time of dizzying upheaval and hopeful promise during which various ... Read more

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  • The Different Drum

    Community Making and Peace

    by M. Scott Peck ...
    Series series New Hope for Humankind
    'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and to bring people closer together, we have failed to use it to build a true global community. Dr M. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Why You Think the Way You Do

    The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home

    by Glenn S. Sunshine ...
    How do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of the worldviews that underpin the Western world. Professor and historian Glenn S. Sunshine demonstrates the decisive impact that the growth of Christianity had in transforming the outlook of pagan Roman ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • A World of Ideas

    A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers

    by Chris Rohmann ...
    How do you keep up in the age of information when there's so much to know and so little time? Here's the ideal solution: a practical book of knowledge offering in-depth analysis, detailed interpretation, and penetrating insight into the key concepts, the most influential minds, and the major intellectual movements in history. A World of Ideas is an essential tool for anyone who wants to be fully ... Read more

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