Name: Holding up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline
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Author: Anne Glyn-Jones
ISBN: 9780907845607

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Holding up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline

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Publisher

Imprint Academic

Author

Anne Glyn-Jones

Year

1996

Language

English

Pages

652

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0907845606

ISBN13

9780907845607

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Synopsis "Holding up a Mirror: How Civilizations Decline "

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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