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04385cam a2200493 a 4500 001 E0C3250AFBCD11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20190815012642 008 090220s2009 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2009007219 020 $a 019533616X (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780195336160 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)310715504 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d C#P $d BWX $d ABG $d VP@ $d TJX $d IOE $d IOJ $d SILO 050 00 $a GR825 $b .A86 2009 082 00 $a 398.24/54 $2 22 100 1 $a Asma, Stephen T. 245 1 $a On monsters : $b an unnatural history of our worst fears / $c Stephen T. Asma. 260 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2009. 300 $a xii, 351 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-333) and index. 505 2 $a Introduction: Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India -- Monsters are nature's playthings -- Hermaphrodites and man headed oxen -- Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters -- Do monsters have souls? -- The monster killer -- Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts -- The medicalization of monsters -- Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror -- Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart -- Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies -- Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs. 520 0 $a "Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters : how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Asma begins with a letter from Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. detailing an encounter in India with an "enormous beast larger than an elephant with three ominous horns on its forehead." From there the monsters come fast and furious Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, the leopard bear lion beast of Revelation, Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory just beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought. Exploring philosophical treatises, theological tracts, newspapers, pamphlets, films, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unpacks traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated. Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity. And in a world that is daily becoming less secure and more ambiguous, he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters and thereby avoid becoming one." -- from publisher's website. 650 0 $a Monsters. 941 $a 17 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611014010.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909021432.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707015220.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717020051.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20190328025130.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006051337.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20151010011503.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20150911024046.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20140812072110.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20140607010938.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20140131021036.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20110405011057.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20100616031548.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20100503155145.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20100503133839.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100201083435.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20100201083435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E0C3250AFBCD11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b IOJInitiate Another SILO Locator Search