Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 796 g
Volume 2, Beyond Positivism and Historicism
Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 796 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-52178-0
Verlag: Routledge
This second volume in this new series aims to anchor the 21st century in the tradition of the new, to raise methodology into historiography. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are critical pivots in the formation of a larger mosaic of culture and civilization. A tradition has developed and refuses to dissolve under the withering aspect of analysis. Whether flying under the banner of Arthur Lovejoy, George F. Kennan, Pitirim Sorokin, Arnold Toynbee, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, T. S. Eliot, Thorstein Veblen, and countless others, it has become clear that making sense of the whole, and not resting easy with bits and pieces has become the mission of Culture & Civilization.
This second volume expands upon the initial efforts to deepen the sense of tradition, with outstanding contributions ranging from Charles Murray, The Happiness of the People; Peter Watson, Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud; Evan Selinger, Ethics and Poverty Tours; Walter A. McDougall, American Policy Traditions in the Middle East; Raymond Ibrahim, Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Michael Curtis, Israel: Land, Law, and Legitimacy; Marian Tupy, Persistent Poverty in Africa; David Ronfeldt and Danielle Varda, Cyberocracy Revisited; a retrospective by Leo Alexander on Medical Science under Dictatorship; and a series of brilliant new essays on Wyndham Lewis, Jonathan Swift, Max Scheler, and Thurman Arnold.
Culture and Civilization does not embrace idiosyncratic visions of the apocalypse or the end of Western empires. It does attempt to bring together immediate issues and ideas that are substantial and challenging. The essential polarity between democracy and autocracy has now taken on historical dimensions that has now taken on larger, deeper dimensions in different political economic, and ecological terrain of our day is civilization versus barbarism. This second volume is a sober, deeper response to such a challenge.
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Introduction
I. Nations
1. The Happiness of the People
Charles Murray
2. Are U.S. Foreign Policy Traditions Relevant to the Middle East?
Walter A. McDougall
3. Misguided Priorities and Persistent Poverty in Africa
Marian L. Tupy
4. Israel and Apartheid
Michael Curtis
II. Sciences
5. Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud
Peter Watson
6. Medical Science under Dictatorship
Leo Alexander
7. Prospects for Cyberocracy Revisited
David Ronfeldt and Danielle Varda
III. Societies
8. Ethics and Poverty Tours
Evan Selinger
9. The Dubious Presumptions of Decline in American Power
Karl-Heinz Kamp
10. Then Comes Marriage? Religion, Race, and Marriage in Urban America
W. Bradford Wilcox
11. Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Raymond Ibrahim
IV. Intellectuals
12. Wyndham Lewis: A Portrait of the Artist as Ideologue
Gabriel R. Ricci
13. Jonathan Swift: The Satirist as Philosopher
Peter J. Stanlis
14. Max Scheler: The Eternal in Man
Graham J. McAleer
15. Thurman Arnold: The Folklore of New Deal Liberalism
Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.
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