AVAILABLE AT INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES or ORDER ON-LINE: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble SUMMARY REVIEWS EXCERPT As printed in Utne Reader, July-August 1997 (28K) CLOSING PASSAGE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE   Epochal Rumblings in the 1990s CHAPTER TWO   The Rise and Fall of Modern Ideologies of Denial CHAPTER THREE   Prometheus on the Rebound CHAPTER FOUR   Don't Call It Romanticism! CHAPTER FIVE   Embracing the Real APPENDIX   Modernity Is to Us as Water to a Fish readers have visited this page since November 30, 1997

The Resurgence of the Real Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World By Charlene Spretnak Addison-Wesley Publishing Company -- ISBN 0-201-53419-3 The Los Angeles Times Book Review has called The Resurgence of the Real one of the "100 Best Books of 1997". NEW: Wild Duck Review interviews the author. (Reprinted from their Winter 1998 issue.) "Charlene Spretnak's The Resurgence of the Real is a remarkable intellectual tour de force, a mordant yet deeply humane critique of where we went wrong in the modern world -- and the way forward to a wholesome post-industrial future."   Theodore Roszak, author of The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein   "I turn to Charlene Spretnak for wisdom and perspective. She inspires social change from the roots of our humanity, one that calls for compassionate intelligence over superficial reactions. The Resurgence of the Real reminds us we cannot survive the seduction of modernity. Our path is through the body, through deep engagement with where we live and whom we live among. This book is a lighthouse."   Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge and Desert Quartet   "With this book, Charlene Spretnak takes her place among the great visionary thinkers of our time.... 'Ecological postmoderism' is a pathway toward human sanity and fulfillment via the acceptance and embrace of ecological imperatives. Whether you are an activist, a public policy leader, an academic, or are simply interested in breakthrough thinking, this book is a must."   Jerry Mander, editor of The Case Against the Global Economy   "The Resurgence of the Real is nothing less than a spiritual guidebook for life in the next millennium, rediscovering what is essential for human fulfillment, while deftly warning us about what is catastrophic. This is a passionate, learned, ennobling, and best of all, a persuasive approach to the future that is neither technophilic nor technophobic."   Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law, Princeton University   "For its comprehensive perspective, clarity of presentation, critical insight, and contemporary relevance, Charlene Spretnak deserves serious attention from all who are concerned with getting out of the commercial illusions of the 20th century.... This is a superb book!"   Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth