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Holding Up a Mirror : How Civilizations Decline

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0907845606
ISBN-13 9780907845607
Publisher Imprint Academic
Imprint Imprint Academic
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 10th, 2000
Print length 652 Pages
Weight 1,014 grams
Dimensions 15.70 x 23.50 x 4.00 cms
Ksh 4,300.00
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Using theatre as a measure society''s health, this book shows that Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Christendom and our own contemporary society all follow the same pattern: prosperity thrives on the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true ''reality’; but that very conviction leads to a rejection of the supernatural.

The good news is: that faith in material goods really does bring prosperity to society. The bad news is: that self-same commitment to material things leads inexorably to the destruction of the civilizations it builds. Using theatre as a measure society''s health, this book shows that Ancient Greece and Rome, Mediaeval Christendom and our own contemporary society all follow the same pattern: prosperity thrives on the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true ''reality’; but that very conviction leads to a rejection of the supernatural, undermines absolute moral standards, and leads to cultural and social disintegration.


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