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The Wreck of Western Culture

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The Wreck of Western Culture

By John Carroll

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About the book

Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture: Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velazquez, Descartes, Kant, and Freud. Those who sought to contain humanism's pride within a frame of higher truth - like Luther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaard - could barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform...Show more

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9781922247766

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Scribe Publications

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2014

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1

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The Wreck of Western Culture

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