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Contents Page |
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Chapter One: Introduction |
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1.1 The Modern Cinderella |
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1.2 A Macro Vision of the World |
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1.2.1 Old Theories and New
Methodology |
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1.2.2 Examples of Macro-Analysis |
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1.2.3 Information Revolution |
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1.2.4 A Sceptical View on the
Information Revolution |
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1.3 The Knowledge-Value Revolution |
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1.3.1 The Innovation of Sakaiya |
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1.3.2 Errors in Sakaiya’s Theory |
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1.3.3 Lessons from Sakaiya and Others |
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Chapter Two: Popular Culture |
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2.1 Introduction |
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2.2 Twins and Popular Music |
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2.2.1 December 1st
2001 ─ A Day of Insignificance |
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2.2.2 A Closer Look at Twins and
Their Production |
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2.2.3 The Superstars Phenomenon |
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2.3 Comic and Movie |
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2.3.1 Comics and Popular Visual Arts |
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2.3.2 Movies and Modern Literature |
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2.3.3 General Comments on Popular
Culture |
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Chapter Three: From Homer to Christ |
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3.1 Introduction |
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3.2 Humanism and Classical Greece |
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3.2.1 Greek Polytheism |
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3.2.2 Music, Literature, Sculpture,
Athletics |
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3.2.3 Thrive for Knowledge |
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3.2.4 Perception on Wealth and Goods |
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3.3 The Rise and Fall of the Greek
World |
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3.3.1 The Shaping of the Hellenistic
World |
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3.3.2 Signs of Decadence in Classical
Greece |
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3.3.3 Collapse of the Classical
Mentality |
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3.3.4 The Hellenistic Age |
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3.4 Last Phase of Antiquity – The
Roman Age |
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3.4.1 Latin culture of the Romans |
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3.4.2 Reasons of Roman Cultural
Backwardness |
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3.4.3 Embrace of Christianity |
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3.4.4 Fall of the Western Roman
Empire |
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3.5 Hagiography and Dark Age Europe |
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3.5.1 Miracles, Magic, and Early
Christianity |
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3.5.2 Variety of Saints |
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3.5.3 Merger of Heaven and Earth |
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3.5.4 Literary Style in the Dark Age |
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3.5.5 Concept of Wealth and Political
Instability |
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Chapter Four: The Rise of Europe |
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4.1 Introduction |
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4.2 The Spiritual Awakening |
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4.2.1 Economic, Political, and Social
Mutations |
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4.2.2 Revival of Humanism |
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4.2.3 The Attempt of the Scholars |
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4.2.4 Origins of the Great Awakening |
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4.3 Renaissances and Reformation |
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4.3.1 The Italian and Northern
Renaissance |
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4.3.2 The Coming of Reformation |
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4.3.3 Lutheranism, Calvinism and
Puritanism |
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4.4 Philosophers and the Scientific
Revolution |
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4.4.1 Study of Nature in the West
before Copernicus |
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4.4.2 The Copernican Revolution |
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4.4.3 The Cartesian Revolution |
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4.4.4 The Enlightenment Age |
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4.5 The Romantic Protest |
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4.5.1 Conflict between Science and
Experience |
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4.5.2 Arts in the Age of Reason |
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4.5.3 Romantic Philosophy |
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4.5.4 Romantic Paintings, Literature
and Music |
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Chapter Five: The End of Humanism |
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5.1 Introduction |
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5.2 Impressionism and the Modern Age |
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5.2.1 Monet and the Beginning of
Impressionism |
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5.2.2 Evolutionism and Transience |
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5.2.3 Human Experience and Scientific
Vision |
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5.2.4 Passivity and Aestheticism |
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5.3 Information Age, Post-Modernism
and Beyond |
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5.3.1 Civilization and Humanism |
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5.3.2 A New Vision of Western History |
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5.3.3 The Long Twentieth-Century |
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5.3.4 From Expressionism to
Minimalism |
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5.3.5 Popular Culture and the
Contemporary World |
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5.3.6 A Bold Projection into the
Mysterious Future |
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