The Ruin of Ancient Civilization.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 22398 |
| Format | 12.5 x 19 |
| Détails | 250 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251450483 |
In The Ruin of Ancient Civilization, published after the First World War, the great Italian historian and intellectual Guglielmo Ferrero leads his reader to take a step back from contemporary history through an in-depth rereading of ancient Rome at the time of its fall. Through this detour, Ferrero analyzes the political and cultural mechanisms at work in the long term of a Western political history that is above all that of European civilization. This use of history as a lantern illuminating the present time has lost none of its relevance and finesse. To reread Ferrero today, in the crisis we are going through, is to listen to a convinced European, who already wrote that Europe would save itself or perish entirely and that, in the seesaw between these two futures, the question of the form of political regimes and their sincerity with regard to European principles is not anecdotal but central.
In The Ruin of Ancient Civilization, published after the First World War, the great Italian historian and intellectual Guglielmo Ferrero leads his reader to take a step back from contemporary history through an in-depth rereading of ancient Rome at the time of its fall. Through this detour, Ferrero analyzes the political and cultural mechanisms at work in the long term of a Western political history that is above all that of European civilization. This use of history as a lantern illuminating the present time has lost none of its relevance and finesse. To reread Ferrero today, in the crisis we are going through, is to listen to a convinced European, who already wrote that Europe would save itself or perish entirely and that, in the seesaw between these two futures, the question of the form of political regimes and their sincerity with regard to European principles is not anecdotal but central.