The barbaric heart : faith, money, and the crisis of nature / Curtis White

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181) and index.

The anguish of the barbaric heart -- Naked force clothed in beauty -- The problem with pluralism : America's hot air gods -- The crisis of nature -- The idols of environmentalism -- The ecology of work -- Sustainability : a good without light -- Money, the visible God -- The revenge of the external -- On the uses and abuses of Adam Smith -- "Socrates, practice music" -- A God "deep down things" -- A tree hugger's faith -- Democratic vistas.

Smart, funny, and fresh, The Barbaric Heart argues that the present environmental crisis will not be resolved by the same forms of crony capitalism and managerial technocracy that created the crisis in the first place. With his trademark wit, White argues that the solution might very well come from an unexpected quarter: the arts, religion, and the realm of the moral imagination.