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In Search of Civilization
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4123646In Search of Civilizationhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/in-search-of-civilization-9781555970277/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2672342/54a8af4b-6634-4f8d-9895-27dba74e3fac.jpg?v=638384295674070000250325MXNGraywolf PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>"A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better." </strong></p><p>In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. "Civilization" once referred to a societys technological prowess, its political development, or its cultural achievement. In the modern era, however, the word became burdened by the legacy of colonialism and connotations of elitism. For it to have value once again, according to Armstrong, we must understand that a society balances material prosperity with spiritual prosperity if it is to merit the term "civilized"and currently we are impoverished.</p><p><em>In Search of Civilization</em> is his corrective. As he roams from anecdote to aesthetic appreciationfrom the banality of an early job at an insurance company to the redemptive wonders of a seventeenth-century church spire visible out an office window, from Adam Smiths philosophy to the Japanese tea ceremonyArmstrong reminds us that culture lies within us and that its nourishment is essential to a flourishing society.</p>...4059401In Search of Civilization250325https://www.gandhi.com.mx/in-search-of-civilization-9781555970277/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2672342/54a8af4b-6634-4f8d-9895-27dba74e3fac.jpg?v=638384295674070000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119781555970277_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_<p><strong>A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better. </strong></p><p>In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. Civilization once referred to a societys technological prowess, its political development, or its cultural achievement. In the modern era, however, the word became burdened by the legacy of colonialism and connotations of elitism. For it to have value once again, according to Armstrong, we must understand that a society balances material prosperity with spiritual prosperity if it is to merit the term civilizedand currently we are impoverished.</p><p><em>In Search of Civilization</em> is his corrective. As he roams from anecdote to aesthetic appreciationfrom the banality of an early job at an insurance company to the redemptive wonders of a seventeenth-century church spire visible out an office window, from Adam Smiths philosophy to the Japanese tea ceremonyArmstrong reminds us that culture lies within us and that its nourishment is essential to a flourishing society.</p>(*_*)9781555970277_<p><strong>"A self-effacing, humane and unparanoid call to change our wealthy yet often barbaric world for the better." </strong></p><p>In this provocative cri de coeur, the philosopher John Armstrong rescues the idea of civilization from irrelevance and connects it to our search for individual happiness. "Civilization" once referred to a societys technological prowess, its political development, or its cultural achievement. In the modern era, however, the word became burdened by the legacy of colonialism and connotations of elitism. For it to have value once again, according to Armstrong, we must understand that a society balances material prosperity with spiritual prosperity if it is to merit the term "civilized"and currently we are impoverished.</p><p><em>In Search of Civilization</em> is his corrective. As he roams from anecdote to aesthetic appreciationfrom the banality of an early job at an insurance company to the redemptive wonders of a seventeenth-century church spire visible out an office window, from Adam Smiths philosophy to the Japanese tea ceremonyArmstrong reminds us that culture lies within us and that its nourishment is essential to a flourishing society.</p>...9781555970277_Graywolf Presslibro_electonico_46e85277-91de-4dae-89d0-a13ab5cd100a_9781555970277;9781555970277_9781555970277John ArmstrongInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/macmillan-epub-6dd4c6a8-d624-4a37-99aa-e091d1ee9194.epub2011-03-29T00:00:00+00:00Graywolf Press