Anthropologist and social critic Ashley Montagu calls Egotopia, "a
magnificent, distinguished, and important book." In his foreword to
Egotopia, Montagu relates having read the book, "in as Shelley
once said, a frenzy of enthusiasm," and contends, "both Emerson and
Thoreau would have rejoiced in it."
From the book's jacket:
"Egotopia begins where other critiques of the American landscape
end: identifying the physical ugliness that defines and homogenizes
America's cities, suburbs, and countryside. According to Miller, the
ugliness of America's suburban sprawl is the physical manifestation of
our increasing narcissism -- our egotopia. Psychotherapy, as a medium
promoting self-indulgence, has deified private man as it has demonized
public man. The American landscape is no longer the physical
manifestation of public and communal values. Instead it has become a
projection of individual interests and private fantasies which can no
longer tolerate, nor even recognize, aesthetic concerns."
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