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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears [Audiobook] download free by Stephen T. Asma

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears Audiobook download free by Stephen T. Asma
  • Listen audiobook: On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our Worst Fears
  • Author: Stephen T. Asma
  • Release date: 2011/6/17
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Religious
  • ISBN: 9780199798094
  • Rating: 7.18 of 10
  • Votes: 150
  • Review by: Aubrie Her
  • Review rating: 8.71 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/1
  • Duration: 4H29M54S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-02
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, MP3, WAV, MP4, FLAC (compression ZIP, ACE, TAR.LZO, EML, RAR, TZ)
  • Total pages original book: 368
  • Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 27M32S (7.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Hailed as 'a feast' (Washington Post) and 'a modern-day bestiary' (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters-how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Beginning at the time of Alexander the Great, the monsters come fast and furious-Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, Satan and his demons,Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory beyond the safe enclosures ofrational thought. Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated. Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty, ambiguity, and insecurity. And in a world that is daily becoming less secure and more ambiguous, he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters-and thereby avoid becoming one.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Monsters & Legendary Beings, Social & Cultural History, Philosophy: Metaphysics & Ontology, Folklore, Myths & Legends, Social, Group Or Collective Psychology, Ancient Religions & Mythologies
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 18.43 USD
  • Dimensions: 152x229x34mm
  • Weight: 505g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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