Mountain Of Truth: The Counterculture Begins, Ascona, 1900 1920 by Martin Green

Mountain Of Truth: The Counterculture Begins, Ascona, 1900 1920

Martin Green

301 pages first pub 1986 (view editions)

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The reader who will savor this book is the intellectually curious cultural historian who wants a triple-lens portrait—biographical vignettes of Otto Gross, Gusto Graser and Rudolf von Laban; a panoramic map of how anarchists, dancers, psychoanalysts and feminists forged a temporary utopia on a Swiss hillside; and a genealogy tracing Ascona’s pagan-nature-worshipping, anti-industrial ethos forward into Gandhi’s India and the 1960s American counterculture.

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"In 1900 a group of disaffected intellectuals, preoccupied with their own unhappiness in a rapidly industrializing Europe, built the Nature Cure Sanatorium on a small hill outside the tiny Swiss fishing village of Ascona. Soon others joined them, ...

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