by Daniel Arnaud (2012)
Voici exposée la richesse intellectuelle du Proche-Orient asiatique, de la fin du IVe millénaire au VIe siècle avant notre ère. L'histoire de la région fut complexe, même si les empires, à partir du IXe siècle, imposèrent un ordre à peu près stable. Cette solution politique apparut, au VIe siècle, insatisfaisante au grec Thalès comme au roi de Babylone. Aussi, celui-ci chercha-t-il à réunir ses sujets dans le culte d'une divinité suprême ; Thalès inventa la philosophie.
Edgar L. Eckfeldt
"Analyzes the history of Western civilization and develops a scientific and historical argument that shows the exceptional power of Christianity in the evolution of Western social consciousness. It argues that the spiritual power of Christianity has had an extraordinary effect on transforming civilization and the development of humanitarian social institutions that even atheists take for granted"--Provided by publisher.
Timothy L. Parrish
"Who or what is an American? Many scholars have recently argued that in a country of such vast cultural and ethnic diversity as the United States it is not useful or even possible to talk of a single national identity. Are people right to suggest that the very idea of "Americanness" is merely a myth designed to obscure the divisions among us?" "This is the central question addressed by Tim Parrish in this interdisciplinary study."--BOOK JACKET.
Michael Heim
In this book Michael Heim provides the first consistent philosophical basis for critically evaluating the impact of word processing on our use of and ideas about language. This edition includes a new foreword by David Gelernter, a new preface by the author, and an updated bibliography.
Marvin Perry
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. Arnold Toynbee and the Western Tradition summarizes and appraises Toynbee's understanding of the nature, evolution, and destiny of Western civilization, focusing on his critique of the liberal-rational tradition.