In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present
A case that the West's inherited culture is worth defending, and a survey of what it contains.
Michael R.J. Bonner argues that civilisation is a fragile achievement rather than a default condition, and works through the art, law, religion and learning he takes to constitute the Western inheritance. It is written as advocacy rather than survey, for readers who already suspect the case needs making.
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And Michael J. Bonner, In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present.
Source · August 2023
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