“A surprising five-century examine of civilization’s cultural retreat.” — William Safire, New York Instances
Extremely regarded right here and overseas for some thirty works of cultural historical past and criticism, grasp historian Jacques Barzun has set down in a single steady narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the entire of Western tradition since 1500.
Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaissance and Reformation down to the current within the double mild of its personal time and our urgent considerations. He introduces characters and incidents together with his uncommon literary fashion and beauty, bringing to the fore these which have been forgotten or obscured. His compelling chapters–resembling “Puritans as Democrats,” “The Monarchs’ Revolution,” and “The Artist Prophet and Jester”–present the recurrent position of nice themes all through the period.
The triumphs and defeats of 5 hundred years kind an inspiring saga that modifies the present impression of 1 lengthy story of oppression by white European males. Girls and their deeds are distinguished, and freedom (even in sexual issues) shouldn’t be an invention of the final a long time. And when Barzun charges the current not as a fruits however a decline, he’s on no account a prophet of doom. As an alternative, he reveals decadence as the conventional shut of nice durations and a mandatory situation of the inventive novelty that can burst forth–tomorrow or the following day.
Solely after a lifetime of separate research protecting a broad territory may a author create with such ease the synthesis displayed on this magnificent quantity.
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