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Book A History of Modern Culture

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revival  A History of Modern Culture  Volume I  1930

Download or read book Revival A History of Modern Culture Volume I 1930 written by Preserved Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated chiefly politics. Then came the economists to arouse the interest of scholars and of the public in the production and distribution of wealth. Economic history rightly absorbs much attention, for it illumines, with its new searchlight, many a dark corner of the past, and explains many features of present-day society. But to many men today the most interesting thing about society is its culture; just as the most interesting thing about an individual is his thought. Indeed, it has begun to be suspected that even politics and economics, each sometimes worshipped as a First Cause, are but secondary effects of somthing still deeper, namely, of the progress of man's intellectual life. The present volume aims to exhibit, as a unified whole, thestate and progress of modern culture.

Book A History of Modern Culture  The Great Renewal

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture The Great Renewal written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Culture

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Culture

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Culture

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Modern Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Preserved Smith
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-17
  • ISBN : 1108074642
  • Pages : 691 pages

Download or read book A History of Modern Culture written by Preserved Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published 1930-4, this two-volume work considers the emergence of modern society in the wake of the Protestant reformation.

Book Ars Vitae

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 0268108919
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Ars Vitae written by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern society. In this book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn offers a fresh solution: a return to classic philosophy and the cultivation of an inner life. The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledged crisis for individuals and communities while current modes of making sense of our lives prove inadequate. Yet, in this time of alienation and spiritual longing, we can glimpse signs of a renewed interest in ancient approaches to the art of living. In this ambitious and timely book, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn engages both general readers and scholars on the topic of well-being. She examines the reappearance of ancient philosophical thought in contemporary American culture, probing whether new stirrings of Gnosticism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, and Platonism present a true alternative to our current therapeutic culture of self-help and consumerism, which elevates the self’s needs and desires yet fails to deliver on its promises of happiness and healing. Do the ancient philosophies represent a counter-tradition to today’s culture, auguring a new cultural vibrancy, or do they merely solidify a modern way of life that has little use for inwardness—the cultivation of an inner life—stemming from those older traditions? Tracing the contours of this cultural resurgence and exploring a range of sources, from scholarship to self-help manuals, films, and other artifacts of popular culture, this book sees the different schools as organically interrelated and asks whether, taken together, they can point us in important new directions. Ars Vitae sounds a clarion call to take back philosophy as part of our everyday lives. It proposes a way to do so, sifting through the ruins of long-forgotten and recent history alike for any shards helpful in piecing together the coherence of a moral framework that allows us ways to move forward toward the life we want and need.

Book The great renewal  1543 1687

Download or read book The great renewal 1543 1687 written by Preserved Smith and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revival  A History of Modern Culture  Volume II  1934

Download or read book Revival A History of Modern Culture Volume II 1934 written by Preserved Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The understanding of history can be advanced only by the combination or alternation, of analysis and synthesis. Detailed research and generalizing survey are not antiethical but complementary. For a long time, however, the specialist has reigned supreme in our schools. The need is now, surely, for a return to synoptic writing. The present work was undertaken to supply the need of a synthesis. It is a map of a large region, not a geological chart of a square mile or the plan of a single city. Its value, if any, lies in its view of the interrelations of large tracts of social and intellectual life, not in the intensive investigation of narrow fields.

Book The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe written by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. This abridged edition, after summarising the initial changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops, goes on to discuss how printing challenged traditional institutions and affected three major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of modern science. Also included is a later essay which aims to demonstrate that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the recent development of new communications technologies.

Book A Bibliography of Modern History

Download or read book A Bibliography of Modern History written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

Download or read book The Printing Press as an Agent of Change written by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-30 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

Book The Reception of Pragmatism in France and the Rise of Roman Catholic Modernism  1890 1914

Download or read book The Reception of Pragmatism in France and the Rise of Roman Catholic Modernism 1890 1914 written by David G. Schultenover and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays provides a small revolution in the study of Roman Catholic Modernism, a movement that until now has been largely seen as an episode that underscored institutional Catholicism's isolation from the mainstream intellectual currents of the time.

Book The Commentaries of Pius II

Download or read book The Commentaries of Pius II written by Pope Pius II and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science

Download or read book Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science written by British Library of Political and Economic Science and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University Bibliography   University of Virginia

Download or read book University Bibliography University of Virginia written by University of Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: