ISBN 9780595167500 | 0595167500 Textbooks - "Blooms Morning Coffee Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life" by PhD Arthur Asa Berger Arthur Asa PhD Berger Arthur Asa Berger PhD

Authors: Ph.D. - Arthur Asa Berger - Arthur Asa Ph.D. Berger - Arthur Asa Berger Ph.D.
ISBN 10: 0595167500
ISBN 13: 9780595167500
Release: January 15, 2001
Format: Paperback (228 pages)
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Tags: Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Anthropology,

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Coffee, comforters, king-sized beds, gel toothpaste, razors, underwear, the morning shower-all activities and objects we have tended to pay no attention to-until the publication of this book. In a series of short vignettes endearingly illustrated by the author, Arthur Asa Berger gives Americans a profound way to understand their morning rituals.Have you ever considered, for instance, that the digital clock, by producing free-floating liquid numerals disconnecting us from both time past and time future, could be interpreted as a metaphor for the alienation many people feel in contemporary society? Or consider our nightclothes: The pajama is the most immediate witness to our sexual activities; thus, we cover our pajamas with a bathrobe to guard against the anxiety of being revealed to other family members. The pajama is intricately connected to human shame.Bloom's Morning, with thirty-six short chapters bracketed by brief essays on the nature of semiotic analysis, is a perfect book for the inquisitive mind. It is chock-full of valuable and quirky nuggets from this most interesting of social commentators-items that, taken together, give us a new vision through which to understand ourselves.

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