Family and Civilization
Title | Family and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Carle C. Zimmerman |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2014-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1497635748 |
Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University. In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall of different types of families and the rise and fall of civilizations, particularly ancient Greece and Rome, medieval and modern Europe, and the United States. Zimmerman traces the evolution of family structure from tribes and clans to extended and large nuclear families to the small nuclear families and broken families of today. And he shows the consequences of each structure for the bearing and rearing of children; for religion, law, and everyday life; and for the fate of civilization itself. Originally published in 1947, this compelling analysis predicted many of today’s cultural and social controversies and trends, including youth violence and depression, abortion and homosexuality, the demographic collapse of Europe and of the West more generally, and the displacement of peoples. This new edition, part of ISI Books’ Background series, has been edited and abridged by cultural commentator James Kurth of Swarthmore College and includes essays on the text by Kurth, Allan Carlson, and Bryce Christensen.
Romanticism and Civilization
Title | Romanticism and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Kremer |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1498527485 |
Romanticism and Civilization examines romantic alternatives to modern life in Rousseau’s foundational novel Julie. It argues that Julie is a response to the ills of modern civilization, and that Rousseau saw that the Enlightenment’s combination of science and of democracy degraded human life by making it bourgeois. The bourgeois is man uprooted by science and attached to nothing but himself. He lives a commercial life and his materialism and calculations penetrate all aspects of his existence. He is neither citizen, nor family man, nor lover in any serious sense: his life is meaningless. Rousseau’s romanticism in Julie is an attempt to find connectedness through the sentiments of private life and wholeness through love, marriage, and family.
Rethinking Civilization
Title | Rethinking Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Majid Tehranian |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 041577070X |
This new volume offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age, exploring the uneven pace of development of human societies, particularly in the last two centuries, and arguing that this is leading to a global civil war.
Reshaping the Work-Family Debate
Title | Reshaping the Work-Family Debate PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Williams |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010-10 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0674055675 |
Based on the William E. Massey Sr. lectures in the history of American Civilization.
Civilization and Its Discontents
Title | Civilization and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0486282538 |
(Dover thrift editions).
The Other Greeks
Title | The Other Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1999-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520209350 |
Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Streams of Civilization
Title | Streams of Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Liberty Press |
Publisher | Christian Liberty Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1999-05-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781930367432 |
This world history text provides a comprehensive overview of ancient history from Creation through the 1620s, from a Christian perspective. Extensive vocabulary questions and suggested projects are listed throughout the text. The text is beautifully illustrated and contains numerous high-quality maps in two-color. Grade 9.