Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity /

Stranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity / / Peter Murphy.

Stranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, an...

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Superior document:Social and Critical Theory ; 30
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Murph, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social and Critical Theory ; 30.
Physical Description:1 online resource (353 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Introduction: A Placid Society
  • 1 Quantum Creation
  • 1 Quantum Creation
  • 2 Topological Imagination
  • 3 Doubling
  • 4 Color Music
  • 2 Four Temperaments
  • 1 A Relaxed Steeliness
  • 2 Do Not Forget to Laugh
  • 3 Classic and Romantic
  • 4 The Four Temperaments
  • 5 Grandiosity versus Limits
  • 3 Creation Australis
  • 1 The Australian Creation
  • 2 A Modern Odysseus
  • 3 Value, Shape and Beauty
  • 4 Utility and Ornament
  • 5 A Society of Cities
  • 4 Australian Imaginaries
  • 1 Ways of Seeing
  • 2 The Beautiful and the Sublime
  • 3 Antinomies
  • 4 Introvert and Extrovert
  • 5 Realists and Romantics
  • 1 Political Romanticism
  • 2 Cycles of Romance and Reality
  • 3 History, Authenticity, Nature
  • 4 Anti-politics
  • 5 Movements and Moralists
  • 6 From History to Geometry
  • 6 Portal Metaphysics
  • 1 Entry and Exit
  • 2 Ancients and Moderns
  • 3 Creating Worlds
  • 4 Metaphysics of Creation
  • 5 Truth, Truths and Ambidexterity
  • 6 Where Is the Homeless Mind at Home?
  • 7 Steel and Glass
  • 8 Enigmatic Shadows
  • 7 Stranger Architectonics
  • 1 The Portal City
  • 2 Strangers and Citizens
  • 3 Cities, Nations and Empires
  • 4 Structures and Proportions
  • 5 True Lies
  • 6 Nature and Convention
  • 8 Epic Mythistory
  • 1 Gallipoli
  • 2 Epic Mythistory
  • 3 Atrocity in Modernity
  • 4 Enigma and Fortune
  • 5 Character and Ideology
  • 6 What Kind of People?
  • 9 Modern Sacreds
  • 1 Secular and Sacred
  • 2 Cultural Modernization
  • 3 The Envy of Creation
  • 4 Portals and Paradoxes
  • 5 Liquid Stone
  • References
  • Index.

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