The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age

The Passing of the Modern Age

By John Lukacs

244 pp
$19.95
Edition: Paperback
The Passing of the Modern Age
The Passing of the Modern Age
Paperback
From $19.95

We are now, says the author, at the end of an age which began four to five hundred years ago and which we called the Modern Age, in contrast with the Middle Ages and Antiquity. What for Spengler was a philosophical hypothesis has now become an everyday reality. At a time when in some respects man’s accomplishments are at a peak, there is a loss of faith in the civilization that produced these accomplishments.



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We are now, says the author, at the end of an age which began four to five hundred years ago and which we called the Modern Age, in contrast with the Middle Ages and Antiquity. What for Spengler was a philosophical hypothesis has now become an everyday reality. At a time when in some respects man’s accomplishments are at a peak, there is a loss of faith in the civilization that produced these accomplishments.

John Lukacs discusses such diverse subjects as politics, learning, race, science, religion, art, and nature to illustrate specifically how this loss of faith has brought us to the end of the modern age and into a new Dark Ages from which some of our descendants may hopefully emerge.

Out of print for decades, this lucid and realistic survey of a total civilization is once again available to readers in a new Angelico Press edition.



Praise

“An admirable achievement. Lukacs’s style is especially enjoyable.” —ROBERT LILIENFELD, The Nation

“Mr. Lukacs is that rare being, an absolute first-rate historian who can write with both detachment and brilliance about history as a form of thought, a part of culture, a distinctive mode of Western consciousness.” —ROBERT A. NISBET

“A series of brief essays that deftly and pungently dissect the ills of contemporary society…. Mr. Lukacs is especially adept at shattering idols and at demolishing shibboleths. The ideas expounded by the author are provocative, challenging, and controversial.” —JULES DAVIDS, World Affairs



About the Author

JOHN LUKACS was born in Budapest in 1924 and came to the United States in 1946. Until his retirement he taught history at Chestnut Hill College near Philadelphia. He also held visiting professorships at Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania. A prolific writer, Lukacs's best-known works include The Duel, Five Days in London, The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age, A Thread of Years, and Historical Consciousness.

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