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Growing wings to overcome gravity : criticism as the pursuit of virtue / George A. Panichas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c1999.Description: xxii, 340 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0865546061 (casebound : alk. paper)
  • 0865546185 (perfectbd. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.95 21
LOC classification:
  • PN85 .P36 1999
Contents:
Foreword / Robert Drake -- Pt. 1. The Crisis of Modernism "Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre" I. The Abyss of Negations. Everything is Disequilibrium. The Woodstock in Ourselves. Beyond a Certain Point. The Eclipse of Excellence. II. The "Terrible Simplifiers" Abettors of Irreverence. Apologists for Mediocrity. Agents of Reductionism. Advocates of Debasement. Avatars of Betrayal -- Pt. 2. Shepherds of the Peoples "Affirming the Enduring Order of Things" Teacher and Critic. The Moral Imagination. The Quest for Transcendence. A Few Reasonable Words. Man of Letters. Sapiential Voices. A Corrective to Darkening Counsel. The Discipline of Criticism. Character and Criticism -- Pt. 3. To See Again the Stars "And the Fire and the Rose Are One" The Need for Leadership. After Ideology. The Wrestlings of Soul. Moral Discovery. Spiritual Heroism. Orientation toward Something Higher. Keepers of the Flame. The Courage to Go On. In Steady Ascension.
Review: "Written by a Christian man of letters and addressed to readers concerned with the condition of the modern world, Growing Wings to Overcome Gravity contains interconnected essays that examine moral, spiritual, intellectual, and cultural problems in our time."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-302) and index.

Foreword / Robert Drake -- Pt. 1. The Crisis of Modernism "Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre" I. The Abyss of Negations. Everything is Disequilibrium. The Woodstock in Ourselves. Beyond a Certain Point. The Eclipse of Excellence. II. The "Terrible Simplifiers" Abettors of Irreverence. Apologists for Mediocrity. Agents of Reductionism. Advocates of Debasement. Avatars of Betrayal -- Pt. 2. Shepherds of the Peoples "Affirming the Enduring Order of Things" Teacher and Critic. The Moral Imagination. The Quest for Transcendence. A Few Reasonable Words. Man of Letters. Sapiential Voices. A Corrective to Darkening Counsel. The Discipline of Criticism. Character and Criticism -- Pt. 3. To See Again the Stars "And the Fire and the Rose Are One" The Need for Leadership. After Ideology. The Wrestlings of Soul. Moral Discovery. Spiritual Heroism. Orientation toward Something Higher. Keepers of the Flame. The Courage to Go On. In Steady Ascension.

"Written by a Christian man of letters and addressed to readers concerned with the condition of the modern world, Growing Wings to Overcome Gravity contains interconnected essays that examine moral, spiritual, intellectual, and cultural problems in our time."--BOOK JACKET.

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