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- catalog abstract ""This book is an empirical and theoretical inquiry into what constitutes the "new age," looking specifically at self-help therapy, holistic health, environmentalism, belief in paranormal phenomena, and other current tendencies considered to be "new age." Based primarily on fieldwork of new age travelers, consumers and practitioners, the book examines how these practices are an attempt to democratize scientific knowledge and provide an alternative to consumer society. These practices are in this manner illustrative of the limits of modern narratives of progress, such as science, medicine, democracy, liberalism, and are evidence of what some call the crisis of community/identify.". "The book draws on phenomenology, interpretive hermeneutics, anthropological cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstructionism and Marxism in exploring how the new age can inform us with regard to modern/postmodern relations with Nature, our ambivalent perceptions of self and other, essentialism and relativism, and epistemology and ontology. Further, the book raises the question of the purpose and meaning of subcultures in contemporary society, and our collective relationship to utopias and dystopias."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13218994.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""The book draws on phenomenology, interpretive hermeneutics, anthropological cultural studies, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstructionism and Marxism in exploring how the new age can inform us with regard to modern/postmodern relations with Nature, our ambivalent perceptions of self and other, essentialism and relativism, and epistemology and ontology. Further, the book raises the question of the purpose and meaning of subcultures in contemporary society, and our collective relationship to utopias and dystopias."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description ""This book is an empirical and theoretical inquiry into what constitutes the "new age," looking specifically at self-help therapy, holistic health, environmentalism, belief in paranormal phenomena, and other current tendencies considered to be "new age." Based primarily on fieldwork of new age travelers, consumers and practitioners, the book examines how these practices are an attempt to democratize scientific knowledge and provide an alternative to consumer society. These practices are in this manner illustrative of the limits of modern narratives of progress, such as science, medicine, democracy, liberalism, and are evidence of what some call the crisis of community/identify.".".
- catalog description "I. The Commodification of the New Age -- 1. The New Age Ethic and the Spirit of Postmodernity -- 2. The New Age Industry: Consumption, Ideology, and the New Age -- II. New Age as Subversive -- 3. New Age Environmentalism: The New Age as a Micropolitics of Resistance -- 4. New Age Travellers in Britain and Ireland: The New Age as Subculture -- III. The New Age as a Symptom of Postmodernity -- 5. Unified Subjects, Unified Communities: The Desire for Reconciliation in the Libidinal Economy of the New Age -- 6. The New Age and the Crises of Modern Narratives of Progress: The New Age as a Symptom of (Post) Modernity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xi, 180 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New age ethic and the spirit of postmodernity.".
- catalog identifier "1572735201 (cl)".
- catalog identifier "157273521X (ppb)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New age ethic and the spirit of postmodernity.".
- catalog isPartOf "Hampton Press communication series.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Hampton Press communication series".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press,".
- catalog relation "New age ethic and the spirit of postmodernity.".
- catalog subject "306/.1 22".
- catalog subject "BJ1012 K74 2004".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. The Commodification of the New Age -- 1. The New Age Ethic and the Spirit of Postmodernity -- 2. The New Age Industry: Consumption, Ideology, and the New Age -- II. New Age as Subversive -- 3. New Age Environmentalism: The New Age as a Micropolitics of Resistance -- 4. New Age Travellers in Britain and Ireland: The New Age as Subculture -- III. The New Age as a Symptom of Postmodernity -- 5. Unified Subjects, Unified Communities: The Desire for Reconciliation in the Libidinal Economy of the New Age -- 6. The New Age and the Crises of Modern Narratives of Progress: The New Age as a Symptom of (Post) Modernity.".
- catalog title "The new age ethic and the spirit of postmodernity / Carmen Kuhling.".
- catalog type "text".