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From Plato to Nato: The Idea of the West and its Opponents [Audiobook] download free by David Gress

From Plato to Nato: The Idea of the West and its Opponents Audiobook download free by David Gress
  • Listen audiobook: From Plato to Nato: The Idea of the West and its Opponents
  • Author: David Gress
  • Release date: 2004/4/6
  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9780743264884
  • Rating: 8.79 of 10
  • Votes: 676
  • Review by: Christie Briscoe
  • Review rating: 7.96 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/14
  • Duration: 7H43M37S in 256 kbps (124.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-25
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MOD, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, AAC, FLAC, WAV, TTA (compression ZIP, TAR.BZ, ACE, ARJ, TAR.GZ, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 624
  • Includes a PDF summary of 61 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 43M6S (12.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, 'From Plato to NATO' is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges. Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-first century will find in David Gress's original account a fuller description of what the West really is and how, with the best of intentions, it has been misrepresented. Most important, they will encounter a new vision of Western identity and how it can be recovered. Early in the twentieth century, American educators put together a story of Western civilization, its origins, history, and promise that for the subsequent fifty years remained at the heart of American college education. The story they told was of a Western civilization that began with the Greeks and continued through 2,500 years of great books and great ideas, culminating in twentieth-century progressive liberal democracy, science, and capitalist prosperity. In the 1960s, this Grand Narrative of the West came under attack. Over the next thirty years, the critics turned this old story into its opposite: a series of anti-narratives about the evils, the failures, and the betrayals of justice that, so they said, constituted Western history. The victory of Western values at the end of the cold war, the spread of democracy and capitalism, and the worldwide impact of American popular culture have not revived the Grand Narrative in the European and American heartlands of the West. David Gress explains this paradox, arguing that the Grand Narrative of the West was flawed from the beginning: that the West did not begin in Greece and that, in morality and religion, the Greeks were an alien civilization whose contribution was mediated through Rome and Christianity. Furthermore, in assuming a continuity from the Greeks to modern liberalism, we have mistakenly downplayed or rejected everything in between, focusing on the great ideas and the great books rather than on real history with all its ambiguities, conflicts, and contradictions. The heart of Gress's case for the future of the West is that the New must remember its roots in the Old and seek a synthesis. For as the attacks have demonstrated, the New West cannot stand alone. Its very virtues - liberty, reason, progress - grew out of the Old West and cannot flourish when removed from that rich soil.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: History Of The Americas, European History, International Relations, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, General & World History, Cultural Studies, Natural History Books, Political Science & Theory, Political Ideologies
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 37.31 USD
  • Dimensions: 140x214x43mm
  • Weight: 662g
  • Printed by: The Free Press
  • Published in: New York, United States

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