Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-155) and index.
Translator's preface -- Preface: Meaning of our work -- 1: What were the Egyptians? -- 2: Birth of the Negro myth -- 3: Modern falsification of history -- 4: Could Egyptian civilization have originated in the Delta? -- 5: Could Egyptian civilization be of Asian origin? -- 6: Egyptian race as seen and treated by anthropologists -- 7: Arguments supporting a Negro origin -- 8: Arguments opposing a…
1. Conditions for Change: Goods in Profusion -- 2. The Price of Magnificence -- 3. The Triumph of the Book -- 4. Learning to Be Civilized -- 5. New Expertise for Sale -- 6. A Culture of Commodities -- 7. Mapping the Heavens -- 8. Conspicuous Consumption. Abstract The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship, and the emergence of some of the greatest artists and thinke…
Contents: The good, the true, the beautiful -- The rabbi -- The turning point of history -- The light of the gentiles -- The king of kings -- The cosmic Christ -- The son of man -- The true image -- Christ crucified -- The monk who rules the world -- The bridegroom of the soul -- The divine and human model -- The universal man -- The mirror of the eternal -- The prince of peace -- The teacher o…
Content: A book crying wolf -- The crisis of faith and reason -- "To kill God and build a church" -- The inverted world -- Catastrophic Atheism -- The Agnostic economy -- Does the devil exist? -- God's Christian burial -- The risen God of sociology -- Prolegomena to a political morality. Abstract: Notes on individual authors precede significant passages selected from current published crit…
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