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Confusion in the West Anna Rist

Confusion in the West By Anna Rist

Confusion in the West by Anna Rist


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Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse. The book explains how what we call the 'Original Tradition' in Western thought has been replaced by a variety of alternative theories which are usually in unrecognized conflict with one another.

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Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World by Anna Rist

In their trenchant panoramic overview ranging from antiquity to the present-day John and Anna Rist write with authority and ennui about nothing less than the loss of the foundational culture of the West. The authors characterize this culture as the 'original tradition', viewing its erosion as one which has led to anxiety about the entire value of Western thought. The causes of the disintegration are discussed with an intensity rare in academe. Critics of modernity ordinarily concentrate on the Enlightenment and the book certainly offers deep analysis of Enlightenment thought. But it goes further. Thus the cruelty of modern totalitarianism is now depicted as in the spirit of the French Revolution and its implacable hostility to a vanished primordial heritage, while scientism, bureaucracy and consumerism appear as the only rivals to a threatening nihilism. The book argues that Western thought has created a set of conflicting moral and spiritual customs: to the detriment of coherence, in individual minds as in society and culture.

About Anna Rist

Anna Rist is a writer, and former lecturer in Classics at St Michael's College, Toronto. She has published two books of English verse translations of the ancient Greek poets Theocritus and Herodas, an account of life in rural Tuscany (We Etruscans), a novel (The Chain) and a book of poems (Festival and Ferial). She is working on a second novel, a second book of poems, and a five-act play on Catholic Shakespeare. John Rist is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Aquinas Medallist of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The author of 18 books and of more than 100 articles, he has taught at the universities of Toronto and Aberdeen, the Catholic University of America, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Istituto Patristico Augustinianum in Rome. His most recent book is What is a Person? (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Table of Contents

1. Confusion introduced; 2. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem; 3. From Constantine to Henry VIII; 4. Man enlightened: Montaigne to Kant; 5. Totalitarian man: theory and practice; 6. Scientistic humanism; 7. World War, bureaucracy, consumerism; 8. Sexual liberation and the subversion of the person; 9. Personalism, virtue ethics and the original tradition; 10. Culture, what culture? 2021.

Additional information

NGR9781009218375
9781009218375
1009218379
Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World by Anna Rist
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-12-01
278
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