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    First published in 1947, Horkheimer here explores the ways in Nazism - that most irrational of political movements - had co-opted ideas of rationality for its own ends. Ultimately, the book is a warning of the ways this might happen again and, as such, this is a book that has never appeared more timely.

    Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the "trivial" details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change.This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.

    Many of the old-time superstitions and customs have been nurtured and kept alive through the area's relative isolation and the strong attachment of the hillfolk to these old attitudes. Though modern science and education have been making important inroads in the last few decades, the region is still a fertile source of quaint ideas, observances, and traditions.People are normally reticent about their deepest beliefs, especially with outsiders. The author, however, has lived in the Ozarks since 1920 and has long since been a student of Ozark life—and a writer of a number of books and articles on various aspects of the subject. Through casual conversations rather than by direct questioning, he has been able gradually to compile a singularly authentic record of Ozark superstition. His book contains a vast amount of folkloristic material, including legends, beliefs, ritual verses and sayings and odd practices of the hillpeople, plus a wealth of general cultural data. Mr. Randolph discusses weather signs; beliefs about auspicious times for planting crops, butchering hogs, etc.; prenatal influence in "marking" babies; backwoods beauty treatments; lucky charms, omens and auguries; courtship jinxes, love potions, etc.; dummy suppers; and numerous other customs and convictions—many racy and amusing, others somewhat grisly or spooky.Here you'll meet and learn about the yarb doctor who prepared curious remedies of herbs and odd concoctions; power doctors who use charms, spells, and exorcism to effect cures; granny-women (mountain midwives); "doodlebuggers" and witch wigglers who find water with the aid of divining rods; "conjurefolk" and Holy Rollers; witches and goomer doctors; clairvoyants and fortune-tellers; plus the ordinary finger-crossing, wish-making citizens of the area. The general reader as well as the specialist in particular fields of cultural anthropology, etc. will truly enjoy this lively survey of lore and practice—a little-known but fascinating slice of American life.Its gentle humor takes the reader into the hills with the author. The book deserves a place in any general collection of Americana and in all collections of folklore," U.S. QUARTERLY BOOKLIST. "A veritable treasury of backwoods custom and belief… [ a ] wealth of circumstantial detail and cultural background," Carl Withers, N.Y. TIMES.

    His olfactory sense would make a hyena laugh, his sense of touch is inferior to that of a whirligig beetle. This unbalance, the author believes, was brought on in no small degree by the sort of clothes we wear, and the misconceptions attached to them. In our society, the naked body is believed to be incomplete--a body minus clothes. It is the packaged body that we take for the man and the woman. Regarding as we do our body coverings a utility or a convention, we generally ignore their powers to stimulate the nervous system.To better size up the causes of our sensual atrophy, the author sets out to examine the maze of prejudices and inhibitions that entrap the human body. He appraises woman's emotional need to reveal her charms, and the role of shame traditionally imposed on her. He comments on the American's infatuation with the female breast (a consequence, he suspects, of the national habit of drinking milk long after infancy); he draws attention to that little understood expedient of dress, the décolletage, especially its lesser known forms, the artful tear and the multiple windows for breasts, elbow tips and knee caps. Nor does he forget the codpiece, tabooed in our days of uncertain masculinity.A short review of deformations and mutilations, from ritual head flattening to the addiction to biting off one's lover's eyelashes, leads to another fascinating subject, usually passed over in silence, the enjoyment of discomfort. Hair shirts and assorted penitential garments are discussed as tools of self-gratification, and so is women's captive footgear--the stilts, portable pedestals and high-heeled shoes. For want of corsets and hobbleskirts, today, Mr. Rudofsky maintains, we seek sources of voluptuous sensations in multiple belts, straps, and playful riggings of cords and chains.Occasionally, agreeable fantasies are induced by fancy dress and by epidermal contact with garments symbolizing erotic savoir-faire. Yet, asks the author, has there ever been a psychiatrist known to employ sartorial therapy, that is, to prescribe disguises for his patients, to lessen their real or imagined sufferings? Although he is chary of prophesies on the post-paradisiacal Adam and Eve's full rehabilitation, he does hold out hope for a happier relationship between mind and body.Contents: 9 Foreword15 The birth of clothes25 Anatomy of modesty77 A portfolio of monsters93 The fashionable body125 The decorative arts151 Cut and dry goods175 Dress reform and reform dress199 Sartoriasis237 Garments for two246 Clothes and the artist282 Text references286 Index288 Photographers' credits

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