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In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, “the story of the West” that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, “the story of the West” does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts—from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes—can bring it alive.His tale turns on a startling discovery: The Christian message of immortality is conditional. To overcome death—the touchstone of the human condition—the believer must accept the Truth of salvation. Western civilization, by replacing God with technoscience, offers the universal promise that salvation may now be gained on earth. Yet, as a condition, it would impose its own absolute morality on the world. Truth or Death: the Biblical injunction is ours as well.
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Talonbooks (September 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0889225095
ISBN-13: 978-0889225091
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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The late philosopher Thierry Hentsch produced a profound, inspiring and luminous book that examines the Western literary tradition as a quest to prevail over mortality and hope for building social tissue when most people have stopped believing in afterlife. A serious masterpiece full of sensitivity, literary style and philosophical discipline.
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