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Confusion in the West
- Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World
Engelsk Hardback
Confusion in the West
- Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World
Engelsk Hardback

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In their trenchant panoramic overview – ranging from antiquity to the present-day – John and Anna Rist write with authority and ennui about nothing less than the loss of the foundational culture of the West. The authors characterize this culture as the ''original tradition'', viewing its erosion as one which has led to anxiety about the entire value of Western thought. The causes of the disintegration are discussed with an intensity rare in academe. Critics of modernity ordinarily concentrate on the Enlightenment and the book certainly offers deep analysis of Enlightenment thought. But it goes further. Thus the cruelty of modern totalitarianism is now depicted as in the spirit of the French Revolution and its implacable hostility to a vanished primordial heritage, while scientism, bureaucracy and consumerism appear as the only rivals to a threatening nihilism. The book argues that Western thought has created a set of conflicting moral and spiritual customs: to the detriment of coherence, in individual minds as in society and culture.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
278
ISBN-13:
9781009218375
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1009218379
Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2022
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
160mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2022
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