Perry, Marvin
Arnold Toynbee and the Western Tradition

This volume summarizes and appraises Toynbee's understanding of the nature, evolution, and destiny of Western civilization, focusing on his critique of the liberal-rational tradition. Arnold Toynbee was the most prolific historian of the twentieth century. In his massive A Study of History, Toynbee made a comparative study of all the world's civilizations, surviving and extinct, analyzing their rise, growth, breakdown, and disintegration. XII,145 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series V: Philosophy; Vol. 169/Peter Lang Verlag 1996) Mängelexemplar/near mint