Holding Up a Mirror - Imprint Academic

description Reviews Formats

The good news is: that faith in material goods really does bring prosperity to society. The bad news is: that self-same commitment to material things leads inexorably to the destruction of the civilizations it builds. Using theatre as a measure society's health, this book shows that Ancient Greece and Rome, Mediaeval Christendom and our own contemporary society all follow the same pattern: prosperity thrives on the conviction that the material world alone constitutes true 'reality’; but that very conviction leads to a rejection of the supernatural, undermines absolute moral standards, and leads to cultural and social disintegration.
Source: Sunday Times

Credit: Bryan Appleyard

"A visionary book. Painful yet true in its portrait of the present."

Source: Times Literary Supplement

Credit: Angela Ellis-Jones

"A thoroughly researched and illuminating reinterpretation of 'The Crisis of Our Age'."

Source: Daily Telegraph

Credit: Alan Massie

"Her thesis is challenging and her examples abundant and abundantly interesting."

Source: New Statesman and Society

Credit: Frank McLynn

"Glyn-Jones' intriguing book puts an entirely new gloss on the stereotyped picture of fanatical Islamic theocracy."

Source: Identity

Credit: Tim Heydon

"Ann Glyn-Jones does us a great service."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 10 January 2000
- ISBN-13: 9780907845607
- Extent: Main content page count : 652
- Code: 907845606
- Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 4.5 cm
- Weight: 800 grams
- List Price: £17.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

Details

Title: Holding Up a Mirror
Subtitle: How Civilizations Decline
Author: Anne Glyn-Jones
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Imprint: Imprint Academic

See all details

Details

Related titles