Family and Civilization

Author: Carle C. Zimmerman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168451617X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
In Family and Civilization, the distinguished Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States. Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended and large nuclear families to the smaller, often broken families of today. And he shows the consequences of each structure for bearing and rearing of children, for religion, law, and everyday life, and for the fate of civilization itself. Originally published in 1947, this compelling analysis predicted many of today's controversies and trends concerning youth violence and depression, abortion, and homosexuality, the demographic collapse of the West, and the displacement of peoples. This new edition has been edited and abridged by James Kurth of Swarthmore College. It includes essays on the text by Kurth and Bryce Christensen and an introduction by Allan C. Carlson.

Romanticism and Civilization

Author: Mark Kremer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498527485
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment’s combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by making it bourgeois. The bourgeois is man uprooted by science and attached to nothing but himself. He lives a commercial life and his materialism and calculations penetrate all aspects of his existence. He is neither citizen, nor family man, nor lover in any serious sense: his life is meaningless. Rousseau’s romanticism in Julie is an attempt to find connectedness through the sentiments of private life and wholeness through love, marriage, and family.

Rethinking Civilization

Author: Majid Tehranian
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041577070X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This new volume offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age, exploring the uneven pace of development of human societies, particularly in the last two centuries, and arguing that this is leading to a global civil war.

Family and Civilization

Author: Carle C. Zimmerman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1933859377
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
Originally published: New York: Harper, 1947.

Family and Civilization

Author: Carle Clark Zimmerman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 829

Book Description

Family and Civilization

Author: Carle C. Zimmerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610171137
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description

The Other Greeks

Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520209350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600

Book Description
Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.

How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Topics

Author: Peter Kreeft, Ph.D.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1621642682
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the problems that undermine our Western civilization, along with ways to address them. "These essays are not new proposals or solutions to today's problems," he says. "They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today." In his witty, readable style, Kreeft implores us to gather wisdom and preserve it, as the monks did in the Middle Ages. He offers relevant philosophical precepts, divided into various categories, that can be collected and remembered in order to guide us and future generations in the days ahead. Kreeft emphasizes that the most necessary thing to save our civilization is to have children. If we don't have children, our civilization will cease to exist. The "unmentionable elephant in the room", he tells us, is sex, properly understood. Religious liberty is being attacked in the name of "sexual liberty", in other words, abortion. Kreeft encourages us to fight back—with joy and confidence—with the one weapon that will win the future: children.

The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love

Author: Barbara Von Barghahn
Publisher: St. Joseph's University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
In spring 1996, Saint Joseph's University hosted the exhibition "The Holy Family as Prototype of the Civilization of Love: Images from the Viceregal Americas," which commemorated the 75th anniversary of the introduction of the Feast of the Holy Family to the liturgical calendar of the Universal Church. The exhibition displayed paintings from the Spanish Colonial period, rare books and engravings from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, and lithographs and devotional paintings on tin from nineteenth-century Mexico and New Mexico. Culled from private collections, galleries in Miami, New York, Washington D.C., and institutional collections of several Catholic universities, these art works offered a visual chronicle of the evolution of devotion to the Holy Family.

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization

Author: Simon Hornblower
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198706774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 907

Book Description
This Oxford Companion to the ancient classical world is aimed at the general reader interested in learning more about the very bedrock of Western culture, covering such topics as history, morals, mythology, medicine and social life.