sandy krolick, ph.d.
kulturCritic

                       studies cultural, philosophical and global
                            

the critic's writings

                                        "Because such fingers need to knit

                  that subtle knot which makes us man…”

                                                           (John Donne, The Ecstasy)

Cultural Criticism: Essays, Philosophical and Political

"This collection of essays is unusually perceptive and thought-provoking. "Unusually," because Dr. Krolick fully understands both (a) the psychological and social structures of "civilization" defined correctly, which is unusual in itself, and (b), the psychological and social structures of the long-lived, widespread human cultures that preceded the appearance of civilization. He demonstrates that we cannot situate ourselves intelligently in the present without such insights as he provides about the past -- the deep past. Dr. Krolick's work will have to be reckoned with by all future analysts of the human condition and its prospects." Marvin Bram, Ph.D., L.H.D.


The Recovery of Ecstasy: Notebooks from Siberia

More than twenty years since his last publication, Sandy Krolick unleashes a firestorm of cultural critique and commentary,wrapped around the warmth of a loosely philosophical memoir.

“Your book is really good!  I like it!  You're an excellent writer.  Thank you for your work!”
  
  
DERRICK JENSEN
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Author of Endgame, The Culture of Make Believe, and A Language Older than Words.  He was named one of Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" and won the Eric Hoffer Award in 2008. Philosopher poet of the deep ecological movement, he also writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine.)

"Sandy has worked out a way to both rid ourselves of the suffering of death-terror and re-conceive the past so that the new conception fills rather than empties each present moment. From one direction, take away arguably the deepest source of human suffering; from the other direction bring back arguably the deepest source of human happiness."           

MARVIN BRAM, Ph.D., L.H.D., From the Foreword

"Sandy Krolick has insight and a genuine love of life that is evident on every page; and he has the gift to communicate it passionately."

WISTERIA LEIGH, The Bookworms Dinner 
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Recollective Resolve:
A Phenomenological Understanding of Time and Myth

"In this groundbreaking work Krolick takes up Martin Heidegger’s notion of 'being-toward-death,' or anticipatory resolve. It’s an unsatisfactory notion, imprisoned in the calendar.  Krolick rotates Heidegger 180 degrees and postulates the strikingly satisfactory 'being-toward–the-beginning,' or recollective resolve."    

MARVIN BRAM, Ph.D., L.H.D.

Working to develop a new conception of mythic existence, Krolick uses the methods of phenomenology and history of religions to unearth a different  way of understanding the problem of time and grasping its impact on our conception of self and world.  
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Gandhi in the "Postmodern" Age: Issues in War and Peace

This seminal collection of essays spanning issues in international relations, geopolitics, cultural critique and social analysis has been used globally, and has been included in Colman McCarthy's education curriculum at the Center for Teaching Peace in Washingtopn, D.C.

"The contributions to this volume by Krolick and Cannon range over many facets of Gandhi, his ideas, and the contemporary problems of war and peace.  Several original interpretations of Gandhi illumine the discussion.  However, a common theme emerges ... that Gandhi has a relevance for our time... and his ideas are valid for resolving disputes today."            

RALPH BULTJENS, From the Foreword                          
                                                                                                         
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Ethical Decision-Making Style: Leader's Guide, Survey and Notes

In this pioneering training program from Addison Wesley, Dr. Krolick developed the tools and concepts necessary to assist both individuals and businesses in confronting the challenge of addressing moral issues and ethical decision making in the context of contemporary professional and economic relations today.  The training program has been widely circulated globally, with inclusion by the U.S. Department of Commerce in its Business Ethics Manual for Emerging Market Economies.
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