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Author: Robert W. BlyFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Perseus BooksISBN-10: 0201406462
ISBN-13: 9780201406467Subject: Literary Collections
Publication Year: 1996Topic: --
Special Attributes: 1st EditionLanguage: --
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Length:319 pages
Height:10.0 in.
Width:7.0 in.
Thickness:1.2 in.
Weight:22.4 oz.

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In The Sibling Society, Bly turns to stories as unexpected as Jack and the Beanstalk and the Hindu tale of Ganesha to illustrate and illuminate the troubled soul of our nation itself. What he shows us is a culture where adults remain children, and where children have no desire to become adults - a nation of squabbling siblings. Through his use of poetry and myth, Bly takes us beyond the sociological statistics and tired psychobabble to see our dilemma afresh. In this sibling culture that he describes, we tolerate no one above us and have no concern for anyone below us. Like sullen teenagers we live in our peer group, glancing side to side, rather than upward, for direction. We have brought down all forms of hierarchy because hierarchy is based on power, often abused. Yet with that leveling we have also destroyed any willingness to look up or down. Without that "vertical gaze", as Bly calls it, we have no longing for the good, no deep understanding of evil. We shy away from great triumphs and deep sorrow. We have no elders and no children; no past and no future. What we are left with is spiritual flatness. The talk show replaces family. Instead of art we have the Internet. In the place of community we have the mall. By drawing upon such magnificent spirits as Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Emily Dickinson, and Ortega y Gassett, Bly manages to show us the beautiful possibilities of human existence, even as he shows us the harshest truths. Still, his probing is deeper and more unsettling than the usual cultural criticism. He finds that our economy's stimulation of adolescent envy and greed has changed us fundamentally. The Superego that once demanded high standards in our work and in our ethics nolonger demands that we be good but merely "famous", bathed in the warm glow of superficial attention. Driven by this insatiable need, and with no guidance toward the discipline required for genuine accomplishment, our young people are defeated before they begin.

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"'The Sibling Society' is by turns engaging and exasperating, suggestive and tendentious, a mix of imagination, scholarship and remarkable silliness."
New York Times - Walter Goodman (06/19/1996)

"...Bly attempts to broaden the polarization of sexual politics by broadening his perspective....The relative simplicity of Bly's prose is a plus in a book that aims for a larger audience....The heart of the book, though, is the timeless...: the hard and subtle work of civilizing the young as it is reenacted by each generation. Here 'The Sibling Society' is most compelling and, one has to say, frightening..."
Philadelphia Inquirer - David Bosworth (07/07/1996)

"'The Sibling Society' is loosely written, in places hardly written at all, and if the author were capable of consecutive argument he would make a better show of it....Yet Bly has lived in our society and watched it to some effect, and his title deserves to catch on....Bly writes mostly from the stance of a perplexed citizen, and once his leading observation has lodged itself in your mind, the evidence to confirm it is everywhere."
New Republic - David Bromwich (09/16/1996)

"[C]ompellingly explains and exposes the forces that have so eviscerated authority in our culture....Bly deserves our respect for the courage and insight with which he faces the deeper, darker truths about American culture. His tough, unflinching denunciation of what is puerile and profane in our culture is much needed. But...his biases often overshadow his brilliance."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Mark Gerzon (09/15/1996)

""[A] valuable book on an enormously important subject. Bly is remarkably persuasive about the social and psychological changes he describes, which hardly anybody else has had the brass to address in such an ambitious way. There are many genuinely powerful passages amongst the psychobabble and pseudo-scholarship."
Spectator - David Sexton (12/07/1996)


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