Once Upon a Time in the West: Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination

by Jan Zwicky

Book Overview

Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky's trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West's most noted achievements.The Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and recently recovered Greek mathematics to precipitate mechanized industry and resource extraction; these in turn made possible the growth of capitalism, the military-industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228017092
• ISBN13: 9780228017097
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.6"