The Cultural Challenge.
A collection of the three volumes by Yannis Andricopoulos on ancient Greek wisdom applied to modern culture and society, including:- Volume 1: In Bed with Madness- Volume 2: The Greek Inheritance- Volume 3: The Future of the PastIn Bed with MadnessGlobalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the...
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Andrews UK Ltd. : Andrews UK,
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; About the Author; The Cultural Challenge; In Bed with Madness; Part I: â#x80;#x98;Mâ#x80;#x99; for Madness; Part I: The Culture; 1. To Be is to Need; 2. Even Eternity is Too Short; 3. The Royal Road to Somebodiness; 4. Everyone But an Idiot; 5. Anything Goes; 6. The Word â#x80;#x98;Motherâ#x80;#x99; Remains; 7. A Knickersâ#x80;#x99; Morality; 8. Rich in Zeroes; Part II: The System; 1. The Teasing of Vesuvius; 2. A Fairy Tale; 3. Ferocious Beasts; 4. A Cultural Bulldozer; 5. The Voiceless Majority; 6. In Nemesis Avenue; Part III: The Challenge; 1. Unlessened by Time.
- The Greek InheritancePart I: The Culture of Joy; 1. The Amorous Gods of Greece; 2. Divine in Itself; 3. Awe-inspiring Abstractions; 4. A Primordial Perception; 5. Dreaming Innocence; 6. Noblest is the Justest; 7. A Semantic Field; 8. Nothing in Excess; 9. Her Lean, Boyish Body; 10. Like a Tuned String; 11. A Culture of Honour; 12. The Science of Beauty; 13. Manâ#x80;#x99;s, Well, Free!; 14. A High-Trust Society; 15. Freedom from Necessity; 16. A Seditious Culture; Part II: Faith and Profits; 1. As Elusive as the Holy Grail; 2. Maundering in Time; 3. A Theology of the Heart; 4. The End of Wisdom.
- 5. The Old Giant6. The Age of â#x80;#x98;Reasonâ#x80;#x99;; 7. A Life-destroying Culture; The Future of the Past; Part I: Back to the Greeks; Part II: Absent Certainties; 1. Weight or Lightness?; 2. A View From Nowhere; 3. Elusive But Extant; 4. Battle For Your Own Sake; Part II: Looking Inwards; 1. From Postmodern to Postmortem; Part III: The Spring Depends on Us; 1. An Unnameable Essence; 2. Contradictions Are Our Hope; 3. The Unfinished Business; 4. The Unsubmissive; 5. Good, But Not Good Enough; 6. Beyond the Price of Sausages; 7. The Market or the Citizens; 8. Virtue and Guts; 9. An Ethical Holism.
- 10. Some â#x80;#x98;Normalâ#x80;#x99; Assumptions11. Perfect in its Vagueness; 12. The â#x80;#x98;Right Thingâ#x80;#x99;; Part V: Epilogue; The Education of Desire; Back Matter; Also from Imprint Academic.