Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement
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Book Description
Why does our contemporary culture find it so hard to handle certain concepts and images? What aspects of the range of human possibilities have been lost in modernity and post-modernity? Rowan Williams argues that we have to let go of a number of crucial imaginative patterns - icons - for thinking about ourselves. He considers areas such as images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about com... More
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Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group - Academi |
Binding | Paperback (5 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 231 |
ISBN-10 | 0826467997 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0826467997 |
Publication Date | 01/2003 |
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