Bücher von Stephen Bertman

Erotic desire is as old as the human race and erotic literature as old as civilization. With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today: new or seasoned, obsessive or unrequited, heterosexual or homosexual, noble or illicit. Students learn the cult

From Toffler's psychobiological disease "future shock", comes Bertman's diagnoses of "hyperculture" - a chronic warping of morals and ethics caused by America's addiction to speed. The treatment he argues, is a drastic slowdown and reasserted control over the technologies that dominate our lives.

With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today.

Applying the metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to the American national state of mind, Stephen Bertman offers a chilling prognosis for the future of the country. He presents psychological insights into the nature of memory together with perspectives on the meaning and future of democracy.