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From Dawn to Decadence Jacques Barzun

From Dawn to Decadence von Jacques Barzun

From Dawn to Decadence Jacques Barzun

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`he product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, intersperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present day, with biographical sketches of influential historical figures.

From Dawn to Decadence Zusammenfassung

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Jacques Barzun

The product of the author's lifetime, this powerful narrative, insterrsperses the author's analysis of wars, philosophy, science, manners, sex, religion, morals, art, et al, from the Reformation to the present day, with biographical sketches of influential historical figures. His conclusion is that the decadence of the current age is merely a watershed for a new age in which Western culture will again flourish.

From Dawn to Decadence Bewertungen

'This astonishing and monumental work may fairly take its place alongside Gibbon, and for much the same array of qualities: a majestic view of five hundred years of history, done in great style, with vast erudition and a continuously entertaining idiosyncrasy of judgement' ALISTAIR COOKE 'To define Western culture is the most delicate and difficult of all operations. Jacques Barzun is one of the most cultivated exemplars of Western civilization and his book contains the experience and the reflection of a lifetime. He tells us not to judge past centuries by our standards and to recognize that, however different, those centuries have made us what we are.' NOEL ANNAN 'Jacques Barzun's summa is the work of a very great historian and of a seer. The phrase from the Bible in apposite: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye is his great gift - and a gift to his readers.' JOHN LUKACS 'From Dawn to Decadence is a personal, witty, learned, bold, and above all wise retrospect of the past half-millennium. One will read it through with mounting interest, and then go back again and again to savour favourite parts of it' GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB

Über Jacques Barzun

Jacques Barzun was born in France in 1907 and moved to the US in 1920. After graduating from Columbia University he joined its faculty as Professor of History, becoming Dean of Faculties and Provost. The author of over thirty books he received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president.

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GOR003481183
9780007113828
000711382X
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun
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HarperCollins Publishers
20010219
896
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