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Baker Brownell

Born: 1887 in St. Charles, Illinois
Died: 1965 in

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Baker Brownell was born and raised in St. Charles. He graduated from St. Charles High School and several universities including Northwestern University in Evanston.

Biography: In 1921 Brownell joined the faculty of Northwestern University, where he would spend the duration of his academic career. Initially, he was a lecturer in editorial writing and journalism, but soon began teaching courses in contemporary thought and philosophy.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Baker Brownell on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=baker+brownell


Selected Titles

  NEW UNIVERSE :
ISBN: 1330945840 OCLC: 983498241

FORGOTTEN Books, [Place of publication not identified], 2015.

  The college and the community;
ISBN: 083712879X OCLC: 185257

Harper New York, [1952]

The small community :
ISBN: 141284746X OCLC: 1001979492

"In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming crowd of their own creations to maintain human integrity. In this manual for human survival, Arthur E. Morgan offers a solution: peaceful existence in the small, primary community where, more easily than anywhere else, people can find a way to live well. Ultimately striving to show that the small community is the lifeblood of civilization, this volume examines the political organization, membership, economics, health, and ethics characteristics of small communities. Like Rousseau before him, Morgan observes that we have less control over our affairs than in the past. In increasing our control of the natural environment, human beings have built a social environment so out of scale that it becomes nearly impossible for people to maintain balance. The struggle now is less with the natural order than with the social order, and preserving human integrity against the plethora of our own creations is the core problem. The need to rediscover elementary forms of human existence has been accelerated by the efficiencies of centralized control and mass persuasion. In the face of this, small communities or intimate groups become the primary pattern in which human beings must live if the good life is to be a realistic goal. The timely nature of this volume has grown as the electronic displaces the mechanical as a moral rival to human community."--Provided by publisher.

 

 

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