Boot Alexander - How The West Was Lost - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: What made the West western ? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that western culture and civilisation have been destroyed not only in but indeed by modernity. How the West Was Lost argues that all modern upheavals the Reformation the English American French and Russian Revolutions the Napoleonic Wars the American Civil War both World Wars can only be understood if seen as resulting in an assault on the core values of the West. At its heart lies the belief that the central conflict of our time is cultural and that traditional culture and civilised society have been under attack ever since the Enlightenment. The author traces the development of Western civilisation from its origins paradoxically in the East and examines what he sees as its inexorable decline in all forms of art and all walks of life. He asks uncomfortable questions about politics philosophy psychology and religion and suggests answers which are provocative and unorthodox. This book is a bold and challenging attempt to present a new concept of modern history for our complacent times. The results are often unexpected but always original and invigorating."
Title: How The West Was Lost
Author(s): Boot Alexander
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784534608
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 1/30/2016
Category: History