Romancing the Primitive: An Important New Book
For 3000 years, civilisation’s discontents have idealised the non-civilised, imagining an existence of happy and tranquil fulfillment in harmony with the natural world. During most of this time, romanticising the other constituted but one strand in the thick rope of Western thought. Today, however, what was once a single filament has become the whole rope
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