Books by Gunther Siegmund Stent
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The Coming of the Golden Age
What I’ve been reading
(2017-06-06)
1. Gunther S. Stent, The Coming of the Golden Age: a view of the end of progress . Starting on p.84 (!), this short 1969 tract becomes a remarkable disquisition on stagnation, through the lens of “Faustian Man,” the decline of romanticism, Ortega y Gasset, Kierkegaard, and the hippie beats of San Francisco. At some point the social sciences won’t make that much more progress, and Stent portrays the Maori as the non-complacent branch of the Polynesians.