Book: How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
Just published: The book, "How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)", by "Asia Times" columnist David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler (Regnery Publishing, September 2011), includes five chapters on "Theopolitics".
In an interview, Goldman said that "Theopolitics" "was my original working title for the book ... Why do some nations find the spiritual resources to embrace life, while others chant, 'We love death'? What is the rational self-interest of a nation that has chosen to become extinct? And how will nations on the way to extinction respond to their predicament? These are the great questions of our time, and materialist political science does not have the tools to answer them. Franz Rosenzweig's sociology of religion, for example, provides a better framework for understanding these problems than the political rationalism of Leo Strauss."
Just published: The book, "How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)", by "Asia Times" columnist David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler (Regnery Publishing, September 2011), includes five chapters on "Theopolitics".
In an interview, Goldman said that "Theopolitics" "was my original working title for the book ... Why do some nations find the spiritual resources to embrace life, while others chant, 'We love death'? What is the rational self-interest of a nation that has chosen to become extinct? And how will nations on the way to extinction respond to their predicament? These are the great questions of our time, and materialist political science does not have the tools to answer them. Franz Rosenzweig's sociology of religion, for example, provides a better framework for understanding these problems than the political rationalism of Leo Strauss."
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