| A Generation Abandoned: Why 'Whatever' Is Not Enough Contributor(s): Beaulieu, Peter D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761869115 ISBN-13: 9780761869115 Publisher: Hamilton Books OUR PRICE: $43.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Political Science | Human Rights - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| LCCN: 2017936227 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 278 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the young in themselves and in civil society, and finally in our place in the universe. The overall theme is the contrast between this sense of abandonment and our inborn and neglected orientation toward personal worth and the common good (the natural law). Much of what is peddled as "social evolution" today is shown to be a throwback to darker times. The analysis submits to a refreshingly conversational tone, but also draws incisively from a very broad pallet of history, literature, theater, theology, and simplifying and illuminating anecdotes (some of them first hand). An early chapter outlines the "perfect storm" of the 1960s. Later chapters expose the word games of the cultural elite, the saga of the family through history and now its abrupt erosion, and the difference between any meandering "arc of history" and a more grounded arc of relations-our rationalized "culture of death" versus a flourishing "human ecology." |