• HUMANS: A CRITICAL CATALOGUE by Peter Whitfield
  • HUMANS: A CRITICAL CATALOGUE by Peter Whitfield

CULTURAL HISTORY

Humans: A Critical Catalogue

This book is a thought-provoking survey of culture and society today. 204 pages.

eBook £6.00

  • This book is a critique of the belief in progress, which has dominated Western thinking for the past two centuries, and which is now universal, unopposed and deeply and damaging

  • The book analyses some of the most important dimensions of human history: political power, religious beliefs, and, in our own time, the supremacy of science and technology.

  • In contrast, it surveys the high culture of the past: the literature, music, arts, philosophy and spirituality, which have formed the ideals and values of civilisation.

  • It argues that humanity’s final frontier is not material – the scientific conquest of nature – but spiritual, that we must learn at last to control the aggression, greed, hatred and will to power which lie within us. The book forms a dialogue between the past and the present, and a warning about the future.

This book is a thought-provoking survey of culture and society today.

It is a response to the widespread sense of pessimism, even despair, felt by millions of people, as they live through the many crises that afflict all modern societies. These crises force us to ask if humanity is in control of its history, or whether, despite all our technical powers, the future is in fact out of control.

The book is deeply critical of our materialistic, technology-dominated way of life, which is contrasted with the ideas and values of the past. It takes the reader on a tour through several thousand years of history, demonstrating that mankind has taken a series of wrong turnings which have brought us to a condition of frantic social complexity and spiritual emptiness. The art, literature, music, religion and philosophy of the past are discussed, and counterpointed with the bleak hedonism which characterises today’s culture. Above all, the book laments that we have turned our backs on nature and forgotten the deeper values of the mind and spirit.

This book will appeal to all who share the author’s concern with the path on which society and civilisation are now moving, and it argues for a re-evaluation of how we think and live.

204 pages           E-Book          Price £6

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