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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jeff LewisPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9781783485147ISBN 10: 1783485140 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 16 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsDedication / Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1. The Cultural Animal / 2. Savage Lovers: Language, Communalism and Violent Simplicity / 3. Symbolic Revolutions: Agriculture, Climate Change and the Beginnings of War / 4. Violent Complexity: Writing, God and the Ancient Enlightenment / 5. What is Enlightenment? Liberalism, Rom antic Science and the First Mass Media / 6. In the Age of Agitation: Modern Media, Violent Consumers and Imaginings of State / 7. Web of Worlds: Nature, Love and the Internet / Conclusion / Bibliography / IndexReviewsExpertly guiding readers through difficult transdisciplinary terrain, Jeff Lewis illuminates the deep cultural roots of human violence in a deeply erudite and compassionate way. Most importantly, he leaves us with the hope for the possibility of those fundamental social transformations that are the necessary for the further evolution of our species. This book is essential reading in the age of the anthropocene! -- Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Politics, University of Hawai'i-Manoa Author InformationJeff Lewis is Professor and Co-director of the Human Security and Disasters Research Program at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Language Wars, Bali’s Silent Crisis, Cultural Studies, Crisis in the Global Mediasphere and Global Media Apocalypse. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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