Paradise Built in Hell The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Name: Paradise Built in Hell The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
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ISBN: 9780143118077

ISBN-10: 0143118072

ISBN-13: 9780143118077

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rebecca Solnit

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"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hellis an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.42" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Rebecca Solnit writes extensively on photography and landscape. She is a contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera and is the author of three books. She has contributed essays to several museum catalogues including Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach and the Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America. She was a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.



Prelude: Falling Together



A Millennial Good Fellowship: The San Francisco Earthquake


The Mizpah Cafï¿½


Pauline Jacobson's Joy


General Funston's Fear


William James's Moral Equivalents


Dorothy Day's Other Loves



Halifax to Hollywood: The Great Debate


A Tale of Two Princes: The Halifax Explosion and After


From the Blitz and the Bomb to Vietnam


Hobbes in Hollywood, or the Few Versus the Many



Carnival And Revolution: Mexico City's Earthquake


Power from Below


Losing the Mandate of Heaven


Standing on Top of Golden Hours



The City Transfigured: New York In Grief And Glory


Mutual Aid in the Marketplace


The Need to Help


Nine Hundred and Eleven Questions



New Orleans: Common Grounds and Killers


What Difference Would It Make?


Murderers


Love and Lifeboats


Beloved Community


Epilogue: The Doorway in the Ruins


Gratitude


Notes


Index