Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse,9780195641899

Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse

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ISBN13: 9780195641899
ISBN10: 0195641892
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-05-14
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Chaudhuri shares the wisdom of his life as a dispassionate scholar and political moralist on a prevalent issue of our time, the decline of western civilization. A highly readable and visionary meditation, this work is characterized by Chaudhuri's capacit

Author Biography


Nirad C. Chaudhuri was born in the East Bengal town of Kishorgani. One of the most distinguished writers that India has produced, he is a Fellow of the Royal Literay Society, and has been conferred a knighthood (the CBE) by the Queen of England as well as an honorary D. Litt. by Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Part One: Of Method, Fundamental Assumptions, and State of Mind 1(24)
1. The Reason for the Methodological Prolegomena
3(3)
2. Of the Method
6(4)
3. Of My Fundamental Assumptions
10(13)
4. Of State of Mind
23(2)
Part Two: Of Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse 25(44)
1. Of Individualism
27(24)
2. Of Nationalism
51(11)
3. Of Democracy
62(7)
Part Three: Decline and Fall of Western Civilization with its Worldwide Offshoots 69
1. Decadence of Western Civilization
71(4)
2. Decadence of the English People
75(36)
3. Decadence in India
111(16)
4. Decadence in the United States
127

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