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Confusion in the West - Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World (Hardcover)
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Confusion in the West - Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World (Hardcover)
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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.
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