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Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture [Paperback]

Lee Quinby (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press (29 Jan 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0801486017
  • ISBN-13: 978-0801486012
  • Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,023,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The author investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century has cast everything from El Nino to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fuelling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world. Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace and the Christian masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality and technology. It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought - not an impending apocalypse - that poses the more serious threat to society, Quinby maintains. Her work advocates a form of scepticism that challenges absolutism and encourages democratic participation.

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About Millennial Seduction
Who among us still thinks the year 2000 is just an arbitrary turn of a calendar page? Why does its approach bring both fear of apocalyptic destruction and the promise of millennial salvation? Lee Quinby investigates how anxiety about the arrival of the new century casts everything from El Niño to sheep cloning in apocalyptic terms, simultaneously fueling panic and fostering unfounded hope for a perfect world.

Millennial rhetoric is both pervasive and persuasive, Quinby argues, because it operates with mutually reinforcing doses of fear and hope. Religious and secular anxiety erupts over charged issues such as sex education, the regulation of cyberspace, and the Christian masculinity of the Promise Keepers. Quinby exposes the dangers of millennialist solutions, which link misogyny, homophobia, and racism with absolutist claims about truth, morality, sexuality, and technology.

It is the absolutism of apocalyptic thought--not an impending apocalypse--that poses the more serious threat to our society, Quinby maintains. Millennial Seduction advocates a form of skepticism that challenges absolutism and encourages democratic participation.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sit down 9 Jan 2012
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I purchased this book as a resource to spark my interest in my Apocalyptic class I was taking. By all means, please sit down, take your time, a pen and highlighter, it has great information, and a lot of things that can be used in a paper (if the subject fits). Its short, informative and intriguing. If you know what Millennial means. :)
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