Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People
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- ISBN 9780791406786
- Weight: 308g
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 1991
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Robert Inchausti is Associate Professor of English at California Polytechnic University.
