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End and beginning : on the generations of cultures and the origins of the West
- Title
- End and beginning : on the generations of cultures and the origins of the West / Franz Borkenau ; edited with an introduction by Richard Lowenthal.
- Author
- Borkenau, Franz, 1900-1957.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.
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- Additional Authors
- Löwenthal, Richard, 1908-1991.
- Description
- ix, 493 pages : portrait; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- European perspectives
- Uniform Title
- European perspectives.
- Subject
- Note
- "Books by Franz Borkenau": p. [475].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1:Culture cycles and culture generations -- Thinking beyond Spengler -- Toynbee and the culture cycle -- The antinomy of death and the culture generations -- From Minoan to Greek mythology -- The philosophical background: beyond space and time -- pt. 2: Contributions to the origin of the West: Linguistic prelude -- The rise of the I-form of speech -- Germanic mythology -a mirror of cultural change -- The mythical starting point [fragment] -- Historic layers in the Siegfried saga -- The archetypes in the Siegfried myth -- The gods of the ancient Germans -- The emergence of Western Christianity -- Pelagius, the Irish and the African church -- The beginnings of Western monasticism [fragment] -- Boniface and the Anglo-Irish impact on Frankish churches -- Rome's break with Byzantium as shown in Christian painting -- Confluence: end and beginning -- Primal crime and "social paranoia" in the Dark Ages -- Stages on the road to Western civilization -- Postscriptum: the Chanson de Roland -- pt. 3: Reflections on present and future -- After the atom: life out of death or life in death? [1947] -- Will technology destroy civilization? [1951] -- Toynbee and the future of the Jews [1955].
- ISBN
- 0231050666
- 9780231050661
- 0231050674
- 9780231050678
- LCCN
- 81001789
- OCLC
- ocm07274497
- 7274497
- SCSB-2259927
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries