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Holding Up a Mirror

How Civilizations Decline

Language EnglishEnglish
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Book Holding Up a Mirror Anne Glyn-Jones
Libristo code: 06252906
Publishers Imprint Academic, January 2000
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According to Glyn-Jones, the central dilemma of history is this: the dynamic that promotes economic prosperity arises largely from the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true 'reality'. Yet that self-same dynamic, developing into a critique of all belief in the supernatural as at best superflous, and at worst a damaging superstition, undermines the authority of moral standards and thus leads eventually to the destruction of the very security, prosperity and artistic achievement on which civilizations rest their claim to greatness. Focussing on dramatic entertainment as the barometer of social change, this book shows in vivid detail how the thesis worked itself out in four different civilizations, those of Greece, Rome and medieval Christendom and now in our own contemporary society.

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Full name Holding Up a Mirror
Language English
Binding Book - Paperback
Date of issue 2000
Number of pages 652
EAN 9780907845607
ISBN 9780907845607
Libristo code 06252906
Publishers Imprint Academic
Weight 1014
Dimensions 235 x 157 x 40
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