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Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu

Autor Ted Anton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iun 2013
Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award

On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. InEros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu,award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810129740
ISBN-10: 0810129744
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press

Recenzii

"Fascinating and excellent . . . important not just because it illuminates history, but because at the center of the story is Ioan Culianu, a figure so interesting no novelist could invent him. [In this murder] fiction and fact change places in a deadly game of masks and illusions." —Andrei Codrescu

"Reveals both a fascinating individual's twenty-year-long life-and-death struggle with his conscience, and a violent underground war in Eastern Europe. This is a story not only about the power of freedom of speech and press, but also about the explosive convergence of scholarship and politics, and the very real risks of the unencumbered life of the mind." —Jeffrey Kittay, publisher, Lingua Franca

Notă biografică

TED ANTONis an associate professor of nonfiction writing in the English department at DePaul University. His book,Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu(1996) received the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and was an Investigative Reporters and Editors National Book Award finalist. Anton was the co-editor of "The New Science Journalists" (1995). His magazine work, forThe Sciences,Publishers Weekly,Lingua Franca,Chicago,the Chicago Tribune, and other publications, has been cited three consecutive times inBest American Essaysand was nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting in 1993. A former Fulbright Research Fellow, Anton speaks about science on radio and to university and industry groups.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Note on Method
Prologue

Book One: The Crime, May 21, 1991
1. Religion as a System
2. The Aftermath

Book Two: Youth, 1950-1972
3. The Art of Memory
4. University Days, 1967-1971
5. "Dark People, Very Clever"
6. A Dream of Paradise

Book Three: Arriviste, 1972-1986
7. The Myth of the West: Italy, 1972-1975
8. Chicago, Paris, and Mircea Eliade
9. Holland: A Rising Young Intellectual, 1976-1983
10. 1484 and 1984
11. Abuses of interpretation
12. Pursuit, 1985
13. The Emerald Game, 1986
14. The Book of Life

Book Four: "Like Being Famous," 1987-1991
15. "All the World Is Mystery Again," 1987
16. Religion and Science: The Fourth Dimension, 1988
17. Divination, 1989
18. "Revolution," Christmas 1989
19. Free World, 1990
20. Scoptophilia
21. A Forking Path
22. Memories of the Future
23. "Dr. Faust: Great Sodomite and Necromancer"
24. Roses at the Door

Book Five: Games of the Mind, 1991-1996
25. After-death Journeys
26. Under the Sign of Capricorn: Suspects
27. The Investigation
28. Games of the Mind
Endnote
Works by Ioan Culianu
Index

Descriere

On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.