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Died. Reinhold Niebuhr, 78, Protestant theologian and political thinker (see RELIGION...
...piece of junk. Such a misunderstanding is unlikely to befall her ambitious new book. Birds of America is so deeply plunged in thought that, despite attractive characters and immaculately constructed scenes, it often seems less like a novel than one of the author's admirable essays. The principal thinker, whose mind frames and filters the events, is a 19-year-old American boy named Peter Levi. What he and the author are up to is nothing less than a tenacious examination of certain American ideals and shibboleths-among them human equality and the sacredness of nature...
When the age of sentiment arrived in the late 18th century, emotions, it is true, were treated with more forbearance. The Utopian socialist thinker Charles Fourier designed a "phalanstery" (from the Greek "phalanx"), a community where self-expression was to be freely indulged; its 1,600 inhabitants-the ideal number-would work and make love as they pleased, at least until the millennium came, when the oceans would be transformed into the kind of lemonade Fourier enjoyed at Paris cafes. But the principal passion of most Utopias continued to be rule making. A mythical land called Lithconia, invented...
...structural analysis. His book is concise and summarizes when possible, but it is not a popularization-he remains honest to the complexities of Levi-Strauss. Blending the old and new anthropology in his approach to structuralism, Leach presents Levi-Strauss as a uniquely important if not over-zealous, thinker...
...recognizes that an effort is afoot to dismantle it, led by rebellious youth. Though he approves of their yearning to reestablish contact with organic life, Mumford is too rigorous a thinker to believe that their movement offers a serious alternative to the megamachine. It is too machinelike itself, with youth running in herds that differ little from those that cram corporation offices. Theirs is not a new consciousness but a very ancient and dubious one: a primordial desire to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. But a new start, says Mumford, requires people who have digested...