Table of Contents

I: The Anguish of the Barbaric Heart; One: Naked Force Clothed in Beauty; Two: The Problem with Pluralism: America's Hot Air Gods; II: The Crisis of Nature; Three: The Idols of Environmentalism; Four: The Ecology of Work; Five: Sustainability: A Good without Light; III: Money, The Visible God; Six: The Revenge of the External; Seven: On the Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith; Eight: Socrates, Practice Music; IV: A God Deep Down Things; Nine: A Tree Hugger's Faith; 10: Democratic Vistas

About the Author

Curtis White

Reviews

"The Barbaric Heart of an adolescent nation stews in its own entropy, and we wonder why the center does not hold. Our mind games stand behind the devastation of place and economy. I've been an admirer of Curtis White for many years, and this book is a brilliant summation of his message."
-James Howard Kunstler, Author of World Made By Hand and The Long Emergency "Splendidly cranky."
-Molly Ivins "Witheringly smart, grotesquely funny, grimly comprehensive, and so moving as to be wrenching."
-David Foster Wallace "Refreshing malevolent irony . . . absolutely indispensable."
-Slavoj Zizek "White brings a great light into the darkness that has descended
upon the hope of a decent American future."
-Lewis Lapham