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100	1		_aMurph, Peter, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aStranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity / _cPeter Murphy.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a1 online resource (353 pages) : _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSocial and Critical Theory ; _v30
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_tAcknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: A Placid Society -- 1 Quantum Creation -- 1 Quantum Creation -- 2 Topological Imagination -- 3 Doubling -- 4 Color Music -- 2 Four Temperaments -- 1 A Relaxed Steeliness -- 2 Do Not Forget to Laugh -- 3 Classic and Romantic -- 4 The Four Temperaments -- 5 Grandiosity versus Limits -- 3 Creation Australis -- 1 The Australian Creation -- 2 A Modern Odysseus -- 3 Value, Shape and Beauty -- 4 Utility and Ornament -- 5 A Society of Cities -- 4 Australian Imaginaries -- 1 Ways of Seeing -- 2 The Beautiful and the Sublime -- 3 Antinomies -- 4 Introvert and Extrovert -- 5 Realists and Romantics -- 1 Political Romanticism -- 2 Cycles of Romance and Reality -- 3 History, Authenticity, Nature -- 4 Anti-politics -- 5 Movements and Moralists -- 6 From History to Geometry -- 6 Portal Metaphysics -- 1 Entry and Exit -- 2 Ancients and Moderns -- 3 Creating Worlds -- 4 Metaphysics of Creation -- 5 Truth, Truths and Ambidexterity -- 6 Where Is the Homeless Mind at Home? -- 7 Steel and Glass -- 8 Enigmatic Shadows -- 7 Stranger Architectonics -- 1 The Portal City -- 2 Strangers and Citizens -- 3 Cities, Nations and Empires -- 4 Structures and Proportions -- 5 True Lies -- 6 Nature and Convention -- 8 Epic Mythistory -- 1 Gallipoli -- 2 Epic Mythistory -- 3 Atrocity in Modernity -- 4 Enigma and Fortune -- 5 Character and Ideology -- 6 What Kind of People? -- 9 Modern Sacreds -- 1 Secular and Sacred -- 2 Cultural Modernization -- 3 The Envy of Creation -- 4 Portals and Paradoxes -- 5 Liquid Stone -- References -- Index.
520			_aStranger Cities explores the metaphysics of Australian society and the clash between its competing strands of romantic culture and classic civilization. The social expression, artistic resonance, economic significance, civic character, historic phases, mythic representations, creative antinomies, and imaginative contribution of these metaphysical fundamentals form the background of Australia’s distinctive urban civilization with its bustling stranger populations, ocean-facing portal cities, revealing art and architecture, and cyclical worlds of markets and industries, war and peace. Murphy portrays a classic eudemonic society whose dominant ethos of phlegmatic happiness vies with a subsidiary current of melancholic and choleric romanticism.
546			_aEnglish
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPhilosophers.
650		0	_aPhilosophy _xHistory.
650		0	_aPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tStranger Cities: Australian Creation and the Ambidextrous Mind, a Profile of Portal Modernity. _dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. _z9789004680098
830		0	_aSocial and Critical Theory ; _v30.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004680128
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