1st Edition

Culture and Civilization Volume 1, 2009

347 Pages

by Routledge

350 Pages

by Routledge

347 Pages

by Routledge

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Intellectual activity in the twentieth century took place largely under the banner of science and society. As the new millennium develops, it is becoming evident that science and society are not words that represent an unmitigated good, nor for that matter, do they exhaust what is new in the human condition. Past writing on the theme of culture has emphasized the growth and expansion of human... Read more

Introduction
I. Nations
1. Show Trials and the Ritual Purifi cation of Hypermodernity -Katherine Hirschfeld
2. Postmodernism and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History -Keith Windschuttle
3. The Darfur Genocide of Black African Women -Samuel Totten
4. How Europe Escaped Speaking Arabic -Michael Novak
II. Sciences
5. The Strange Career of Political Sociology in America -Howard G. Schneiderman
6. Sociology and Classical Liberalism -Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern
7. Crime, Criminals and Guns -James D. Wright and Nicholas E. Libby
8. Progressions of Belief in Global Warming -Michael Crichton
III. Technologies
9. Corporate Social Responsibility and Energy -Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
10. Scholarly Publishing in 1929 and 2009 -Irving Louis Horowitz
11. Feminism, Freedom and History -Christina Hoff Sommers
12. The Strategic Use of Holocaust Denial -George Michael
IV. Intellectuals
13. Heroic Statesmen -Paul Johnson
14. Classical Greek Origins of Modern French Thought -Athena Leoussi
15. Harold Laski on The State -Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.
16. T.S. Eliot's Metaphysics -Peter Milward
Acknowledgments