The Uncertain Phoenix: Toward a Post-Cultural Sensibility

by David L. Hall

Book Overview

The Uncertain Phoenix is primarily an attempt at cultural self-understanding, based upon our Western experiences, and projected beyond them to the East. For, one of the ways in which Western society might develop is toward a style of creative experience reminiscent of Taoism in China, especially now that the strengths of Western philosophy have been fully extended, if not indeed exhausted. Certainly we are rapidly approaching the limits to our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823210545
• ISBN13: 9780823210541
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"