Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else

Description

Product ID:	9781788540056
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Cultural Dementia
Subtitle:	How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else
Authors:	Author: Dr David Andress
Page Count:	176
Subjects:	Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Cultural studies, Cultural studies
Description:	Select Guide Rating A blistering assessment of the West's abandonment of history as it succumbs to an attack of social and cultural dementia, by leading historian David Andress. In this blistering book, David Andress shows how the West has abandoned its history and lost its memory. The former great powers of the historic ''West'' have abandoned themselves to senile daydreams of recovered youth. They have stirred up old hatreds given disturbing voice to destructive rage, and risked the collapse of their capacity for decisive, effective and just government. At the core of this is an abandonment of political attention to history, understood as a clear empirical grounding in how we reached our present condition. In Britain, France and the USA, historical stories are deployed in public debate as little more than dangerous fantasies.
Imprint Name:	Apollo
Publisher Name:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2019-03-07

Weight	174 g
Dimensions	197 × 177 × 7 mm