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'Features pugnacious prose, expository skillfulness, transgressive wisdom, and mental verve.' --The Weekly Standard 'A passionate, imaginative, richly detailed interpretation of the spiritual history of the modern West.' --BookForum Australian sociologist John Carroll turns received wisdom on its head in this brilliant, provocative, and sweeping book. Humanism is commonly credited with building Western civilization as we know it--bringing about democracy, universal rights, and prosperity. But Carroll argues that 'the great five-hundred year Humanist experiment to found an entirely secular culture on earth' has been an abject failure.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Humanism built Western civilization 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 cultureErasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velazquez, Descartes, Kant, Freud. Those who sought to contain humanisms pride within a frame of higher truthLuther, Calvin, Poussin, Kierkegaardcould barely interrupt its torrential progress. Those who sought to reform humanisms tenets from withinMarx, Darwin, and Nietzschewere tested by the success of their own prophecies.So runs the approved view. It is not shared by John Carroll.Instead, Carroll articulates a disruptive and compelling alternative narrative of the course of Western civilization since the Renaissance and the Reformation contrived to unleash reason, will, and a superhuman man on the world. The Wests five-hundred-year experiment with humanism has failed, he maintains in this bracing study of humanisms rise to preeminence and its headlong tumble into contradiction, because humans ultimately need some kind of contact with a higher, or metaphysical, order beyond the confines of their time-bound, mundane selves. And if this wasnt entirely clear before September 11, 2001, Carroll concludes, it surely is now. His provocative and brilliant arguments will challenge received wisdom on every side. "Features pugnacious prose, expository skillfulness, transgressive wisdom, and mental verve." —"The Weekly Standard" "A passionate, imaginative, richly detailed interpretation of the spiritual history of the modern West." —"BookForum" Australian sociologist John Carroll turns received wisdom on its head in this brilliant, provocative, and sweeping book. Humanism is commonly credited with building Western civilization as we know it—bringing about democracy, universal rights, and prosperity. But Carroll argues that "the great five-hundred year Humanist experiment to found an entirely secular culture on earth" has been an abject failure. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781935191827
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