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Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman (1997, Hardcover)

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PublisherFree Press

ISBN-100684827913

ISBN-139780684827919

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Product Key Features

Book TitleIdea of Decline in Western History

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCivilization, General

Publication Year1997

GenrePhilosophy, History

AuthorArthur Herman

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight31 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-036285

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal909/.09812

SynopsisFrom Nazism to the Sixties counter-culture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to shows how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre and Foucault, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.

LC Classification NumberCB245.H429 1997