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Future tense : the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval / edited by Roger Kimball.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Encounter Books, 2012.Description: ix, 229 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594036347 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594036349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781594036477 (ebook)
  • 1594036470 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.932
LOC classification:
  • 002 E 169.12 F996 2012
Contents:
America resumed, 9/11 remembered / Michael J. Lewis -- Is America Periclean? / Victor Davis Hanson -- A Prometheus bound / Andrew Roberts -- America & the angels of Sacre-Coeur / David Bentley Hart -- Everybody gets rich / Kevin D. Williamson -- Under the scientific bo tree / Anthony Daniels -- What's a museum? / James Panero -- Enter totalitarian democracy / Andrew C. McCarthy -- Out of the wilderness / Charles Murray.
Summary: We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America's economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed. Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which Hegel spoke: a time when many of the traditional assumptions about the shape and future of culture are suddenly in play. As The New Criterion embarks on its fourth decade of publication, the magazine commemorates its commitment to the civilizing values of informed criticism wi
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 002 E 169.12 F996 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000108382

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America resumed, 9/11 remembered / Michael J. Lewis -- Is America Periclean? / Victor Davis Hanson -- A Prometheus bound / Andrew Roberts -- America & the angels of Sacre-Coeur / David Bentley Hart -- Everybody gets rich / Kevin D. Williamson -- Under the scientific bo tree / Anthony Daniels -- What's a museum? / James Panero -- Enter totalitarian democracy / Andrew C. McCarthy -- Out of the wilderness / Charles Murray.

We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America's economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed. Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which Hegel spoke: a time when many of the traditional assumptions about the shape and future of culture are suddenly in play. As The New Criterion embarks on its fourth decade of publication, the magazine commemorates its commitment to the civilizing values of informed criticism wi

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