From Plato to NATO
Subtitle: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780743264884
Subjects: Nature / Field Guide Books; Nature; Nature/Ecology; General; History & Theory - General; World - General; History / General; History-World - General; Nature / General; Political Science-History & Theory - General
First sentence: The first step to recovering the history of Western identity from the wreckage of the Grand Narrative is to understand that the narrative was not some revealed truth about Western civilization temporarily granted to American educators during the hegemony of the classical-assimilationist, meritocratic, and humanistic-version of American liberalism in culture and education, and then taken away again as that hegemony succumbed to political and cultural attack in the 1960s and following decades.