| Description |
ix, 493 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Series |
European perspectives |
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European perspectives (Columbia University Press)
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Culture cycles and culture generations Thinking beyond Spengler -- Toynbee and the culture cycle -- The antinomy of death and the culture generations -- From Minoan to Greek mythology -- The philosophical background: beyond space and time -- pt. 2. Contributions to the origin of the West Linguistic prelude The rise of the I-form of speech -- Germanic mythology -a mirror of cultural change The mythical starting point [fragment] Historic layers in the Siegfried saga The archetypes in the Siegfried myth The gods of the ancient Germans -- The emergence of Western Christianity Pelagius, the Irish and the African church The beginnings of Western monasticism [fragment] Boniface and the Anglo-Irish impact on Frankish churches Rome's break with Byzantium as shown in Christian painting -- Confluence: end and beginning Primal crime and "social paranoia" in the Dark Ages Stages on the road to Western civilization Postscriptum: the Chanson de Roland -- pt. 3. Reflections on present and future After the atom: life out of death or life in death? [1947] -- Will technology destroy civilization? [1951] -- Toynbee and the future of the Jews [1955] |
| Analysis |
Western civilization to 1955 |
| Notes |
"Books by Franz Borkenau": p. [475] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western.
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| Author |
Löwenthal, Richard, 1908-1991.
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| LC no. |
81001789 |
| ISBN |
0231050666 |
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