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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