From Plato to NATO
Subtitle: the idea of the West and its opponents
By: David Gress.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
Subjects: Civilization, Western -- Historiography; Civilization, Western -- Philosophy; Liberalism -- Philosophy; Political science -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History; Philosophy, Ancient -- Influence
Description: An in-depth intellectual history of the Western idea and a passionate defense of its importance to America's future, From Plato to NATO is the first book to make sense of the legacy of the West at a time when it is facing its greatest challenges.

Readers of Francis Fukuyama, John Gray, Samuel Huntington, and other analysts of the dilemmas of Western nations in the twenty-first century will find in David Gress's original account a fuller description of what the West really is and how, with the best of intentions, it has been misrepresented. Most important, they will encounter a new vision of Western identity and how it can be recovered.

The heart of Gress's case for the future of the West is that the New must remember its roots in the Old and seek a synthesis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-592) and index.