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Burning Books
Engelsk Paperback
Burning Books
Engelsk Paperback

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For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, immoral, obscene, subversive or seditious. Books have been reduced to ashes in church yards, college yards, school furnaces, public squares and city streets. The goals of the book burners have been to extirpate history, to intimidate and stamp out opposition, to create solidarity, and to cleanse society of controversial ideas. Too often, book burning foreshadows violence against those who originated or shared the ideas.

This work provides a detailed account of actual book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. The book burners are identified, along with the works they set aflame. The study examines the metaphoric language that "justified" the destruction; characterizing the books as "tares," "pestilence," "plagues," "cancers," and "poison" is central to the control the burners hope to exercise. Also considered is the primeval pull of the book burning ritual, which in its simplicity leads to the destruction of ideas and the uniformity of thought associated with totalitarianism.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
239
ISBN-13:
9780786471560
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786471565
Udg. Dato:
24 maj 2012
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
178mm
Højde:
254mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
24 maj 2012
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