Stirrings of Culture
THE CITY, CULTURE AND MYTH
Stirrings of Culture
Robert J. Sardello and Gail Thomas, editors
The sixty-eight articles in this book exemplify
the imaginative work of the Dallas Institute and condense a lifetime of labor of the
thirty-nine authors represented. The essays are grouped according to eight areas of
thought: Ideas, Education, Architecture and Design, Economy, The City, Dallas, Street
Life, and The Body.
ISBN: 0-911005-07-2
250 pages. Paper, $19.50
Dallas Visions for Community: Toward a 21st Century Urban Design
by James Pratt
This beautifully crafted book excites the imagination and challenges a citizenry
to strive to build a good city. Focusing on Dallas in the twenty-first century, the book
includes historical perspectives, maps, and illustrations of urban design opportunities;
it is the result of five years of work by a team of architects, planners, and cultural
psychologists collaborating with hundreds of Dallas citizens.
ISBN: 0-911005-20-X
72 pages, indexed. Paper, $20.00
Imagining Dallas
Gail Thomas, editor
Eight remarkable essays focusing on the life of the city and the recovery of imagination in the modern world. The authors—architects, psychologists, educators, writers—illustrate in diverse ways that to imagine the city in which we live is to participate actively in its making.
ISBN: 0-911005-00-5
95 pages. Paper, $8.00
Pegasus: The Spirit of Cities
by Gail Thomas
A monograph on the myth of Pegasus and how the flying horse, as a symbol
of the spirit of the city, has done its work in re-vitalizing the Dallas City Center.
ISBN: 0-911005-21-8
24 pages, bibliography. Paper, $9.95
The City as Dwelling: Walking, Sitting, Shaping
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OUT OF STOCK
by James Hillman, Wm. H. Whyte and Arthur Erickson
These addresses were delivered at the seminar, "The
City as Dwelling." They direct our attention back to the center—the
heart—of our urban community, to the often overlooked activities which shape and form
our daily lives.
ISBN: 0-911005-32-3
25 pages. Paper, $4.00
Money and the Soul of the World
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OUT OF
STOCK
by Robert Sardello and Randolph Severson
A book that "wittily, radically, and frontally challenges the
quantitative concept of money and reveals other possibilities of money as the energy-flow
of the imaginative life of the polis." —Kathleen
Raine, Temenos.
ISBN: 0-911005-02-1
64 pages. Paper, $8.00
Summoning the Familiar: Powers and Rites of Common Life
by Eileen Gregory
The three essays of this book are attempts
to evoke a sense of the
powers of soul which dwell in individual lives and in culture. "Human Making and the
Fires of the Earth" brings new perspective to the myth of Prometheus, looking beyond
the modern image of the Titan as the patron of Technology and instead seeing him in terms
of the work with fire which he has made possible and necessary to human life. "The
Myth of the Lyric World" explores moments of intimate revelation within ordinary
life. "Friendship: A Marginal and Mixed Bond" considers this often
sentimentalized love as one of the most awesome of human potentialities.
ISBN: 0-911005-04-8
90 pages. Paper, $8.00
Rituals of the Imagination
by Thomas Moore
These four essays seek out the sacred in the
everyday: the imagination is the primary instrument of the holy. This psychological study
includes an essay on the psychology of Marsilio Ficino.
ISBN: 0-911005-03-X
64 pages: Paper, $12.00
