search | recent | authors | map

Books by Gunther Siegmund Stent

← Back to authors

Found 1 book

Book
Mentions on MR
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.

Powered by Datasette