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The Recovery of the West: An Essay in Symbolic History
The Recovery of the West: An Essay in Symbolic History
The Recovery of the West: An Essay in Symbolic History
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The Recovery of the West is the first full-scale study of Western civilization employing the methods of symbolic history. These methods permit (1) an account of the human endowment taking up thought, feeling, and behavior from fruitful new perspectives, (2) a correspondingly new account of the course of Western history seen from the point of view of the degrees of retention, surrender, and deformation of fundamental elements of the human endowment over time, and (3) a therapeutic program based on the present condition of that endowment.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateMay 6, 2002
ISBN9781453565360
The Recovery of the West: An Essay in Symbolic History
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Marvin Bram

Marvin Bram is a Professor Emeritus of History and author of articles on the origins of civilization, pre-civilized and civilized thought-processes, and the nature and future of writing systems.

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