The Idea of Decline in Western History by Herman, Arthur

The Idea of Decline in Western History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781416576334)

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The Idea of Decline in Western History by Herman, Arthur

The Idea of Decline in Western History

$32.95
The Idea of Decline in Western History by Herman, Arthur

The Idea of Decline in Western History

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Arthur Herman
ISBN-10: 1416576339
ISBN-13: 9781416576334
Publisher: Free Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2007
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.32d
By Arthur Herman
By Arthur Herman
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Arthur Herman is the bestselling author of Freedom's Forge, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Idea of Decline in Western History, To Rule the Waves, and Gandhi & Churchill, which was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. Herman taught the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian's Campus on the Mall, and he has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, The Catholic University of America, George Mason University, and The University of the South at Sewanee.

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