Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
This book is one of the great historical interpretations of the formation of Europe and of the decisive role played by Christianity in shaping Western civilization. Dawson’s central thesis is clear: the...
Philosophy of Culture
Leisure, the Basis of Culture
Work for work’s sake. Everything must be profitable, efficient, productive, and useful. The utilitarian vision has conquered and dominated a large part of the existence of Western man. In response to these...
Confessions of a heretic
Collection of eleven essays with the common theme of “Europe’s castrated society.” Scruton is a conservative who is difficult to categorize, as “conservatism should be a defense of government against its...
The Roots of Romanticism
One example of the imprecision of terms used in the human sciences is romanticism and its derivatives (romantic, etc.). Based on this difficulty, Sir Isaiah Berlin, in a series of six lectures edited by...
The performer
Richard Sennett, a renowned sociologist of Jewish faith, takes a journey, at the age of 85, through contemporary society. His starting point is that "the world is a stage," a phrase spoken by Jaques in a...
The Agony of Eros
One of Byung-Chul Han's most successful books. This book has already been translated into seven languages. In it he analyzes one of the most characteristic aspects of today's society: extreme individualism...
Anchors in the Heavens
The author analyzes the historical decline of mataphysics in Western thought. The result has been nihilism, pessimism, atheism and the preeminence of existence over being, with life as...
How Fears work: culture of fear in the 21st century
Frank Furedi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Kent, studied the issue of fear in our culture as early as 1997 in his Culture of Fear and has now deepened his analysis. It is a book...
The Flight from Woman
Though written in the early 1960s, this book explores an historical trend that has only become more pronounced today. It is, as the original cover blurb states, “a study of the sexes as reflected in the...
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud
Philip Rieff is a Benjamin Franklin Professor of Sociology and University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In this book he analizes the impact of Freud, Jung, Reich and D.H. Lawrance in modern...