Holding Up a Mirror: How Civilizations DeclineImprint Academic, 1996 - 652 pagine 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. |
Sommario
17 | 1 |
the Sixth to Fourth Centuries in Greece | 20 |
the Fourth to Second Centuries | 37 |
the Second and First Centuries | 50 |
the Roman World Third Century BC to First AD | 67 |
Pity and Fear? Or Brutalization? The Rise and Rise of the Amphitheatre | 87 |
the Late Republic and Early Empire | 106 |
the Late Republic and the Early Empire | 121 |
the Sixteenth to midSeventeenth Centuries | 243 |
the midSeventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries | 274 |
the Eighteenth Century | 304 |
the Nineteenth Century | 334 |
the Early Twentieth Century | 363 |
the Late Twentieth Century | 393 |
Art for Arts Sake | 429 |
Where the Rainbow Ends | 466 |
the Second and Third Centuries | 146 |
the Fourth to Sixth Centuries | 163 |
the Sixth to Tenth Centuries | 187 |
the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries | 205 |
the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries | 220 |
Cause and Effect | 507 |
Straws in the Wind | 544 |
Notes | 583 |
Bibliography | 619 |
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