The Idea of Decline in Western HistorySimon and Schuster, 29. 5. 2010 - 641 strán (strany) Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, 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 show 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. |
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Afloat on the Wreckage | |
Historical and Cultural Pessimism | |
Degeneration | |
PART | |
Black Over White | |
The Closing of the German Mind | |
Welcoming Defeat | |
The Modern French Prophets | |
Arnold Toynbee | |
EcoPessimism | |
Afterword | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
The Critical Personality | |
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