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- catalog abstract "From Nazism to the sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian Socialists to America's multiculturalists, from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, historian Arthur Herman examines the idea of decline in Western history and explains how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. In a series of masterful biographical sketches, Herman examines the ideas of those who came to reject civilization as a. Doomed enterprise, including Arthur de Gobineau, the aristocratic founder of modern race theory; Friedrich Nietzsche, whose vitalist philosophy of irrationalism inclined a generation toward fascism and Nazism; and W.E.B. Du Bois, whose hostile view of the West would profoundly influence African-American thinking and multiculturalism. Ultimately, Herman shows how two of the most important issues facing contemporary America - race and the fate of the environment - have. Been shaped and distorted by the assumptions of cultural pessimism. From the Aryan Nation and Afrocentrism to the Unabomber, the myth of Western decline continues to exercise a pervasive influence. In many ways, Herman suggests, today's culture wars are ultimately a struggle between those who still recognize the importance of civilized and humanist values and those who do not.".
- catalog contributor b10177312.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Progress, Decline, and Decadence -- 2. Afloat on the Wreckage: Arthur de Gobineau and Racial Pessimism -- 3. Historical and Cultural Pessimism: Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche -- 4. Degeneration: Liberalism's Doom -- 5. Gilded Age Apocalypse: Henry and Brooks Adams -- 6. Black Over White: W.E.B. Du Bois -- 7. The Closing of the German Mind: Oswald Spengler and The Decline of the West -- 8. Welcoming Defeat: Arnold Toynbee -- 9. The Critical Personality: The Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse -- 10. The Modern French Prophets: Sartre, Foucault, Fanon -- 11. The Multiculturalist Impulse -- 12. Eco-Pessimism: The Final Curtain.".
- catalog description "Been shaped and distorted by the assumptions of cultural pessimism. From the Aryan Nation and Afrocentrism to the Unabomber, the myth of Western decline continues to exercise a pervasive influence. In many ways, Herman suggests, today's culture wars are ultimately a struggle between those who still recognize the importance of civilized and humanist values and those who do not.".
- catalog description "Doomed enterprise, including Arthur de Gobineau, the aristocratic founder of modern race theory; Friedrich Nietzsche, whose vitalist philosophy of irrationalism inclined a generation toward fascism and Nazism; and W.E.B. Du Bois, whose hostile view of the West would profoundly influence African-American thinking and multiculturalism. Ultimately, Herman shows how two of the most important issues facing contemporary America - race and the fate of the environment - have.".
- catalog description "From Nazism to the sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian Socialists to America's multiculturalists, from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, historian Arthur Herman examines the idea of decline in Western history and explains how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. In a series of masterful biographical sketches, Herman examines the ideas of those who came to reject civilization as a.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-497) and index.".
- catalog extent "521 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Idea of decline in Western history.".
- catalog identifier "0684827913".
- catalog isFormatOf "Idea of decline in Western history.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "spa eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Idea of decline in Western history.".
- catalog subject "909/.09812 20".
- catalog subject "CB245 .H429 1997".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Western Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Regression (Civilization)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Progress, Decline, and Decadence -- 2. Afloat on the Wreckage: Arthur de Gobineau and Racial Pessimism -- 3. Historical and Cultural Pessimism: Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche -- 4. Degeneration: Liberalism's Doom -- 5. Gilded Age Apocalypse: Henry and Brooks Adams -- 6. Black Over White: W.E.B. Du Bois -- 7. The Closing of the German Mind: Oswald Spengler and The Decline of the West -- 8. Welcoming Defeat: Arnold Toynbee -- 9. The Critical Personality: The Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse -- 10. The Modern French Prophets: Sartre, Foucault, Fanon -- 11. The Multiculturalist Impulse -- 12. Eco-Pessimism: The Final Curtain.".
- catalog title "The idea of decline in Western history / Arthur Herman.".
- catalog type "text".