Anna Rist, John Rist

Confusion in the West (eBook, ePUB)

Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009218382
• Artikelnr.: 70911941

Autorenporträt

Anna Rist is a writer, and former lecturer in Classics at St Michael's College, Toronto. She has published two books of English verse translations of the ancient Greek poets Theocritus and Herodas, an account of life in rural Tuscany (We Etruscans), a novel (The Chain) and a book of poems (Festival and Ferial). She is working on a second novel, a second book of poems, and a five-act play on Catholic Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Confusion introduced
2. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem
3. From Constantine to Henry VIII
4. Man enlightened: Montaigne to Kant
5. Totalitarian man: theory and practice
6. Scientistic humanism
7. World War, bureaucracy, consumerism
8. Sexual liberation and the subversion of the person
9. Personalism, virtue ethics and the original tradition
10. Culture, what culture? 2021.