Suchergebnisse

Modern physicists have penetrated far beyond vision into an ultimate pantheon of mesons and muons and other demiurges of matter. We have managed to turn their poetic penetration into the physical threats of Three Mile Island and a nuclear arms race. American statesmen after World War II, with uncommon and far-reaching vision, set about restoring a devastated world. The world they produced, a world of free, interdependent, and disputatious nations, seems to many Americans and myopic political leaders a source of embarrassment rather than the fruit of our own farsighted statesmanship.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter One: Our Life Begins -- Chapter Two: On Youth -- Chapter Three: On Middle Age -- Chapter Four: On Old Age -- Chapter Five: On Death -- Chapter Six: Our Souls -- Chapter Seven: Our Gods -- Chapter Eight: On Religion -- Chapter Nine: On a Different Second Advent -- Chapter Ten: On Religion and Morals -- Chapter Eleven: On Morality -- Chapter Twelve: On Race -- Chapter Thirteen: On Women -- Chapter Fourteen: On Sex -- Chapter Fifteen: On War -- Chapter Sixteen: On Vietnam -- Chapter Seventeen: On Politics -- Chapter Eighteen: On Capitalism and Communism -- Chapter Nineteen: On Art -- Chapter Twenty: On Science -- Chapter Twenty-One: On Education -- Chapter Twenty-Two: On the Insights of History -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

What is said can be understood only when seen in the context of what is not said. Many ancient and medieval philosophers use this dynamic of presence and absence. Gray shows how each author amplifies meaning in the distance between what he puts into his work and what he leaves unsaid.