William Irwin Thompson, Author Random House (NY) $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87156-750-5
Our cultural center of gravity, argues Thompson, has shifted from the Atlantic to the Pacific Basin. In that emerging culture, cooperation counts more than consumerism, and politics is rooted in bioregion and community instead of warring parties or...
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William Irwin Thompson, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (198p) ISBN 978-0-312-02809-1
Critical supporter of New Age thinking, Thompson ( At the Edge of History ; Pacific Shift ) envisions ``a planetary culture in which myth is understood to be isomorphic, but not identical, to science.'' Weighted down by portentousness and self-sustai
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William Irwin Thompson, Author Doubleday Business $20 (159p) ISBN 978-0-385-42025-9
In a devastating yet hope-giving visionary critique, Thompson ( At the Edge of History ) wryly looks at America's ``ever teenage culture,'' the ``electronic spectator sport'' of U.S. presidential campaigns, and Disneyism, our ``civic religion'' of...
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William Irwin Thompson, Author St. Martin's Press $26.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-312-15834-7
In these wide-ranging, deep essays, cultural critic and philosopher Thompson (At the Edge of History) continues his investigation of what he perceives to be an emerging planetary culture. An unorthodox, adventurous thinker, he applies Buddhist...
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