NEW from E. MICHAEL
JONES
MONSTERS FROM THE ID
"Monsters from the Id is a tour de force of cultural
analysis because of Jones's ability to integrate history, politics
and moral philosophy with the interpretation of texts and films.
It is also an urgent and a sad book because, as he writes in
commenting on Last House on the Left, "children are
vulnerable precisely because the authority figures in their lives
espouse Enlightenment morals" (266). This was the story
of the Godwin-Shelley households, the story of Frankenstein
and the story in millions of American homes today. Most of these
people would like to do the right thing but are hindered by bad
ideas that corrupt their habits (if not their hearts) against
their own best impulses. Part of the remedy is education for
its essential purpose, to form character that is free to know
and govern itself. The hidden history of Modernism, the history
of thought control must be exposed, taught and taken to heart.
One hopes that the thesis of this text, and its constituent chapters
make their way into textbooks, classrooms and souls so that the
next generation may get out of the uncanny house of contemporary
culture and back into the clear sweet light of simple and disciplined
human pleasures."
Eugene Narrett
Horror Stories, so popular in modern literature
and film, originated in the sexual decadence unleashed by the
French Revolution. In a compelling new study of horror, from
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to modern Hollywood, E. Michael
Jones, one of America's most original critics, shows that the
moral order, when supressed, reasserts itself in the form of
an avenging monster.
312 pages, with index and notes 6 x 9, hardcover, $27.95 + S&H
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