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(Ebook) On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T Asma ISBN 9780195336160, 9780199798094, 019533616X, 0199798095

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Authors:Stephen T Asma
Pages:368 pages.
Year:2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:english
File Size:5.16 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780195336160, 9780199798094, 019533616X, 0199798095
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(Ebook) On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T Asma ISBN 9780195336160, 9780199798094, 019533616X, 0199798095

Monsters.
Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread
fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel
us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply
important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche.
Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters―how they
have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what
shapes they are likely to take in the future. Asma begins with a letter
from Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. detailing an encounter in India
with an "enormous beast―larger than an elephantthree ominous horns on
its forehead." From there the monsters come fast and furious―Behemoth
and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation,
Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and
headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of
today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our
deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also
symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory just beyond the safe
enclosures of rational thought. Exploring philosophical treatises,
theological tracts, newspapers, pamphlets, films, scientific notebooks,
and novels, Asma unpacks traditional monster stories for the clues they
offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing
so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for
those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and
defeated.
Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we
handle uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity. And in a world that is daily
becoming less secure and more ambiguous, he shows how we might learn to
better live with monsters―and thereby avoid becoming one.
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