Autorentext
Charlene Spretnak has written several books on social issues, ecological politics, and spiritual concerns, including Green Politics and States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Columbus, Ohio, she holds degrees from St. Louis University and the University of California at Berkeley. She lectures widely in the United States and Europe.

Zusammenfassung
Reflecting on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spetnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in the 1990s.

Inhalt
Introduction; Chapter 1 Epochal Rumblings In The 1990s; Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of Modern Ideologies of Denial; Chapter 3 Prometheus on the Rebound; Chapter 4 Don't Call It Romanticism!; Chapter 5 Embracing the Real;