The Cultural Challenge : A Trilogy by Yannis Andricopoulos.

Cover -- Contents -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Publisher Information -- About the Author -- The Cultural Challenge -- In Bed with Madness -- Part I: 'M' for Madness -- Part I: The Culture -- 1. To Be is to Need -- 2. Even Eternity is Too Short -- 3. The Royal Road to Somebodiness -- 4. Everyone But an Idiot -- 5. Anything Goes -- 6. The Word 'Mother' Remains -- 7. A Knickers' Morality -- 8. Rich in Zeroes -- Part II: The System -- 1. The Teasing of Vesuvius -- 2. A Fairy Tale -- 3. Ferocious Beasts -- 4. A Cultural Bulldozer -- 5. The Voiceless Majority -- 6. In Nemesis Avenue -- Part III: The Challenge -- 1. Unlessened by Time -- The Greek Inheritance -- Part I: The Culture of Joy -- 1. The Amorous Gods of Greece -- 2. Divine in Itself -- 3. Awe-inspiring Abstractions -- 4. A Primordial Perception -- 5. Dreaming Innocence -- 6. Noblest is the Justest -- 7. A Semantic Field -- 8. Nothing in Excess -- 9. Her Lean, Boyish Body -- 10. Like a Tuned String -- 11. A Culture of Honour -- 12. The Science of Beauty -- 13. Man's, Well, Free! -- 14. A High-Trust Society -- 15. Freedom from Necessity -- 16. A Seditious Culture -- Part II: Faith and Profits -- 1. As Elusive as the Holy Grail -- 2. Maundering in Time -- 3. A Theology of the Heart -- 4. The End of Wisdom -- 5. The Old Giant -- 6. The Age of 'Reason' -- 7. A Life-destroying Culture -- The Future of the Past -- Part I: Back to the Greeks -- Part II: Absent Certainties -- 1. Weight or Lightness? -- 2. A View From Nowhere -- 3. Elusive But Extant -- 4. Battle For Your Own Sake -- Part II: Looking Inwards -- 1. From Postmodern to Postmortem -- Part III: The Spring Depends on Us -- 1. An Unnameable Essence -- 2. Contradictions Are Our Hope -- 3. The Unfinished Business -- 4. The Unsubmissive -- 5. Good, But Not Good Enough -- 6. Beyond the Price of Sausages -- 7. The Market or the Citizens.

8. Virtue and Guts -- 9. An Ethical Holism -- 10. Some 'Normal' Assumptions -- 11. Perfect in its Vagueness -- 12. The 'Right Thing' -- Part V: Epilogue -- The Education of Desire -- Back Matter -- Also from Imprint Academic.

A collection of the three volumes by Yannis Andricopoulos on ancient Greek wisdom applied to modern culture and society, including: - Volume 1: In Bed with Madness - Volume 2: The Greek Inheritance - Volume 3: The Future of the Past In Bed with Madness Globalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's local bank', English football teams without English players and an irrepressible desire for more as enough is never good enough - the blanket is always too short. Our personal world as much as our social and political realities seem to have blithely surrendered to the madness of a civilization which views anything from corporate greed and global warming to military adventures and religious fundamentalism as normal as a door banging in the wind. The destructive capabilities of our age have run too far ahead of our wisdom. However, the process is not irreversible if our thinking can postpone its retirement. In Bed with Madness is 'a well-argued, powerful and profound indictment of con.

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