Dynamics of world history
By: Christopher Dawson ; edited by John J. Mulloy ; with a new introduction by Dermot Quinn.
Contributors: Mulloy, John J.
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: History -- Philosophy.; World history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-501) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF HISTORY; title: SECTION I: THE SOCIOLOGICAL; title: FOUNDATIONS OF HISTORY; title: I. The Sources of Culture Change; title: 2. Sociology as a Science; title: 3. Sociology and the Theory of Progress; title: 4. Civilization and Morals; title: 5. Progress and Decay in Ancient and Modern Civilization; title: 6. Art and Society; title: 7. Vitality or Standardization in Culture; title: 8. Cultural Polarity and Religious Schism; title: 9. Prevision in Religion; title: Io. T. S. Eliot on the Meaning of Culture; title: SECTION II: THE MOVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORY; title: I. Religion and the Life of Civilization; title: 2. The Warrior Peoples and the Decline; title: of the Archaic Civilization; title: 3. The Origins of Classical Civilization; title: 4. The Patriarchal Family in History; title: 5. Stages in Mankind's Religious Experience; title: SECTION III: URBANISM AND THE ORGANIC; title: NATURE OF CULTURE; title: I. The Evolution of the Modern City; title: 2. Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind; title: 3. The World Crisis and the English Tradition; title: 4. Bolshevism and the Bourgeoisie; title: PART TWO: CONCEPTIONS OF WORLD HISTORY; title: SECTION IV: CHRISTIANITY AND THE; title: MEANING OF HISTORY; title: I. The Christian View of History; title: 2. History and the Christian Revelation; title: 3. Christianity and Contradiction in History; title: 4. The Kingdom of God and History; title: SECTION II: THE VISION OF THE HISTORIAN; title: I. The Problem of Metahistory; title: 2. St. Augustine and the City of God; title: 3. Edward Gibbon and the Fall of Rome; title: 4. Karl Marx and the Dialectic of History; title: 5. H. G. Wells and the Outline of History; title: 6. Oswald Spengler and the Life of Civilizations; title: 7. Arnold Toynbee and the Study of History; title: 8. Europe in Eclipse; title: Afterword by John J. Mulloy: Continuity and Development; title: in Christopher Dawson's Thought; title: Sources; title: Notes; title: Index.