The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People

by Robert Inchausti

Book Overview

This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppressed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791406784
• ISBN13: 9780791406786
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.5"