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Moshe Phillips on Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:29:43 PM
The book describes the development of the modern West, especially in America from the scientific utopianism of the Enlightenment to post-Modernism which it carefully describes using examples from pop culture and politics as well as great literature. Throughout, the counter-example of Israel and its simple, joyous and sane code is used to help explain the self-destructive imperial pride of the West.
Below are comments by disintguished authors on Dr. Narrett's new work:
“This is a work of first rate scholarship and splendid artistry. Employing the wisdom of the ages in a sparkling variety of writings to trace the decline of America and the West, Eugene Narrett sets a “lamp before our feet to illuminate our path.” This is a hard-hitting message but Narrett’s writing is so crisp that what we have before us is a page-turner. This is a book that we all must read -- and heed. A brilliant performance; Bravo!” -- Jack Engelhard, author: Indecent Proposal; the Bathsheba Deadline; Escape from Mt.Moriah
“Eugene Narrett is no ordinary professor of English literature. He is a thinker, a rare and brilliant thinker. Although others—not many—have seen that the decline of America is largely the result of the combined influence of feminism and multiculturalism, Narrett correlates this decline to changes in Anglo-American literature… Narrett’s deep understanding of literature endows his profound understanding of America with a vividness rarely achieved in academia. His book on the American Collapse will enlighten and astonish his readers.” --- Dr. Paul Eidelberg, President, Foundation for Constitutional Democracy; author Discourse on Statesmanship; Judaic Man
Professor Narrett employs a breath-taking overview of literature, history and politics in this bold examination of America's descent into desperate shallowness, moral apathy and political fantasy. Narrett details this headlong rush to destruction with clarity and thoughtful eloquence. No one can brandish so compelling a phrase…” – Jim Long, filmmaker, author: the Riddle of the Exodus
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In Culture of Terror Eugene Narrett brilliantly identifies postmodernism in its startling development from the Enlightenment’s revolution in values and scientific utopianism, the subsequent Gothic terrors and Romanticism, to Modernism’s shocks to the postmodern ‘state that follows history.’ This is a thrilling, fascinating ride from the confessional mode of the Romantics, to Modern psychology and introspective expressionism to the exhibitionism of media spectaculars and pop culture. Applying a broad palette of great writings from many disciplines Professor Narrett traces America’s collapse back to the formation of “the West,” a culture whose dynamism, productivity, unease and visions of imperial power are embedded in its hybrid roots. A remarkable achievement of cultural history and a must read to understand our times and cult, the media ‘distraction machine.’