LEADER 03284nam 2200541 450 001 9910798458403321 005 20230808193805.0 010 $a1-62894-155-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000731977 035 $a(EBL)4625371 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001695951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16545142 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001695951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14883654 035 $a(PQKB)25090526 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4625371 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000731977 100 $a20161021h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModern America and ancient Rome $ean essay in historical comparison and analogy /$fSimon Kiessling de Courcy 210 1$aNew York :$cAlgora Publishing,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62894-154-5 311 $a1-62894-153-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroductory reflections on the philosophy of history and Oswald Spengler's morphological theory of the high cultural formations -- The four basic stages of ancient and occidental history -- Hellenistic culture, philosophy and art : apoliticism, private aspiration and self-realization -- The degradation of the polis -- European mentalities of the post-imperialist age -- Pan-Hellenism, pan-Europeanism and supra-nationalism -- How the Greeks saw the Romans, and Europeans see the Americans -- How the Romans saw the Greeks, and Americans see the Europeans -- American puritanism and Roman religiousness -- Radical ideology and utopian vision -- Ancestral lands, mobility and depopulation -- Reluctant hegemons -- Present-day America and late Republican Rome. 330 2 $a"Parallels between ancient Rome and modern America have been drawn before, but never like this. Professor Kiessling compares the ancient Greeks and the Romans, and he compares them to the modern Americans and Europeans. Subjects include levels of commitment to religion, responsiveness to post-heroic values, attitudes toward war and peace, moral permissiveness, demography, the susceptibility to universalistic ideas and supra-nationalism and the different levels of belief in the political capacity of the nation and its constitutional framework. Discussing challenges facing present-day America, the author looks at our mounting social inequality, increased political polarization, the transformation into an empire of consumption, the privatization of military force, the role of organized money in politics, and the rise of irrational, apocalyptic thought in public discourse - all of which are reminiscent of ancient Rome. 606 $aComparative civilization 607 $aRome$xCivilization 607 $aGreece$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 607 $aEurope$xCivilization 615 0$aComparative civilization. 676 $a973 700 $aDeCourcy$b Simon Kiessling$f1971-$01570397 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798458403321 996 $aModern America and ancient Rome$93844029 997 $aUNINA