The Crisis of Our Time: Reflections on the Course of Western Civilization, Past, Present, and Future |
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... revolutionary about it , even when depicting revolution . It offered a calm classicism for a securely modern time . Then at this point dawned the Romantic era . From roughly 1780 until 1830 - the dates are somewhat different depending ...
... revolutionary about it , even when depicting revolution . It offered a calm classicism for a securely modern time . Then at this point dawned the Romantic era . From roughly 1780 until 1830 - the dates are somewhat different depending ...
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... revolutions , these almost invariably attempted to advance the modern conception of society . There is no easy answer . Again , the suggestion here is that the revolution in style that wiped out the old modern and replaced it with ...
... revolutions , these almost invariably attempted to advance the modern conception of society . There is no easy answer . Again , the suggestion here is that the revolution in style that wiped out the old modern and replaced it with ...
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... Revolution it is difficult to understand it apart from these later developments , to which it certainly contributed . But the Revolution itself , as distinct from the results of the movement of which it formed a part , was a rather more ...
... Revolution it is difficult to understand it apart from these later developments , to which it certainly contributed . But the Revolution itself , as distinct from the results of the movement of which it formed a part , was a rather more ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
The Present | 17 |
From the Wests Prehistory to | 57 |
Copyright | |
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