Peter Murphy

Gebundenes Buch

Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity

Beschreibung

Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia's distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy portrays a classic eudemonic society whose dominant ethos of phlegmatic happiness vies with a subsidiary current of melancholic and choleric romanticism.

Autor

Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and James Cook University, Australia. His books include Science Fiction and Narrative Form (2023), The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures (2020), Limited Government: The Public Sector in the Auto-Industrial Age (2019), The Collective Imagination: The Creative Spirit of Free Societies (2012), Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004) and Civic Justice: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern World (2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 709g
• ISBN-13: 9789004680098
• ISBN-10: 9004680098
• Artikelnr.: 67753575