The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780791406786)

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 minorities. He demonstrates that Mahatma Gandhi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elie Wiesel, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, and Lech Walesa share an ethic that is, at once, plebeian in origin and yet sublime in aspiration.

Author: Robert Inchausti
ISBN-10: 0791406784
ISBN-13: 9780791406786
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 08/13/1991
Pages: 175
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.48h x 6.76w x 0.48d