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Author(s): Rémi Brague
ISBN(s): 9781890318147, 1890318140
Edition: 1
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Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10:    1587312158
ISBN 13: 978-1587312151
Author:       Rémi Brague, Samuel Lester

Western culture, which influenced the whole world, came from Europe. But its roots are not there. They are in Athens and Jerusalem. European culture takes its bearing from references that are not in Europe: Europe is eccentric.What makes the West unique? What is the driving force behind its culture? Remi Brague takes up these questions in Eccentric Culture. This is not another dictionary of European culture, nor a measure of the contributions of a particular individual, religion, or national tradition. The author’s interest is especially, with regard to the transmission of that culture, to articulate the dynamic tension that has propelled Europe and more generally the West toward civilization. It is this mainspring of European culture, this founding principle, that Brague calls Roman.Yet the author’s intent is not to write a history of Europe, and less yet to defend the historical reality of the Roman Empire. Brague rather isolates and generalizes one aspect of that history or, one might say, cultural myth, of ancient Rome. The Roman attitude senses its own incompleteness and recognizes the call to borrow from what went before it.Historically, it has led the West to borrow from the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens: primarily the Jewish and Christian tradition, on the one hand, and the classical Greek tradition on the other. Nowhere does the author find this Roman character so strongly present as in the Christian and particularly Catholic attitude toward the incarnation.At once an appreciation of the richness and diversity of the sources and their fruit, Eccentric Culture points as well to the fragility of their nourishing principle. As such, Brague finds in it notonly a means of understanding the past, but of projecting a future in (re)proposing to the West, and to Europe in particular, a model relationship of what is proper to it.An international bestseller (translated from the original French edition of Europe, La Voie Romaine), this work has been or is presently being translated into thirteen languages.
 

Eccentric Culture A Theory of Western Civilization 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Foundations of Western Civilization

  1. Introduction to Western Civilization

    • The Problem of Cultural Identity
    • Defining Western Civilization
    • The Role of Eccentricity in Culture

  2. The Origins of the West

    • Ancient Greece: Birthplace of Eccentric Thought
    • The Influence of the Roman Empire
    • Early Christian Contributions to Western Thought

  3. Philosophy and the Development of Western Civilization

    • Rationalism vs. Irrationalism in Western Thought
    • The Emergence of Individualism
    • The Influence of Greek Philosophy on the Western Mind

Part Two: The Rise of Eccentricity

  1. The Role of the Individual in Western Culture

    • Autonomy and the Self
    • The Rise of the “Eccentric Hero” in Literature and Myth
    • Eccentricity and Social Order

  2. The Renaissance and the Birth of Modernity

    • Rediscovery of Classical Ideas
    • Individualism in Art, Literature, and Philosophy
    • The “Eccentric” Artist and Thinker

  3. The Enlightenment: Reason, Revolution, and Eccentricity

    • Rationalism, Freedom, and the Challenge to Tradition
    • The Eccentric Enlightened Thinkers
    • The Impact on Western Political and Cultural Structures

Part Three: Eccentricity in the Modern Era

  1. Romanticism and the Rejection of Rationalism

    • The Search for the Sublime and the Unconventional
    • Eccentricity in Romantic Literature and Art
    • The Role of Emotion and Subjectivity in Culture

  2. The Industrial Revolution and its Cultural Impact

    • Eccentricity in a World of Mass Production
    • The Rise of the Modern Individual in an Industrial Society
    • The Role of Eccentricity in Technological Progress

  3. The 20th Century: Eccentricity and Modernism

    • Modernism and the Rejection of Traditional Forms
    • The Eccentric Genius: Art, Science, and Politics
    • The Paradox of the Individual in a Mass Society

Part Four: Eccentricity and the Future of Western Civilization

  1. Globalization and the Decline of Western Exceptionalism

    • Eccentricity in a Globalized World
    • The Challenges of Cultural Homogenization
    • The Future of Western Civilization in a Multipolar World

  2. The Legacy of Eccentricity in Western Culture

    • The Enduring Influence of Eccentric Thought
    • Eccentricity in Contemporary Culture: Art, Science, and Politics
    • Can Eccentricity Survive in the 21st Century?

  3. Conclusion: The Eccentric Path Forward

    • Embracing Eccentricity for Cultural Vitality
    • The Role of the Eccentric in Shaping the Future
    • Reclaiming the Creative Spirit of Western Civilization

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