Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse

by Chaudhuri, Nirad C.

• ISBN13: 9780195648577
• ISBN10: 0195648579
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Chaudhuri shares the wisdom of his life as a dispassionate scholar and political moralist on a prevalent issue of our time, the decline of western civilization. A highly readable and visionary meditation, this work is characterized by Chaudhuri's capacit

Table of Contents

Part One: Of Method, Fundamental Assumptions, and State of Mind	1	(24)
The Reason for the Methodological Prolegomenon	3	(3)
Of the Method	6	(4)
Of My Fundamental Assumptions	10	(13)
Of State of Mind	23	(2)
Part Two: Of Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse	25	(44)
Of Individualism	27	(24)
Of Nationalism	51	(11)
Of Democracy	62	(7)
Part Three: Decline and Fall of Western Civilization with its Worldwide Offshoots	69	(58)
Decadence of Western Civilization	71	(4)
Decadence of the English People	75	(36)
Decadence in India	111	(16)
Decadence in the United States	127