The Recovery of the West

About the Book

The Recovery of the West is the first full-scale study of Western civilization employing the methods of symbolic history. These methods permit (1) an account of the human endowment taking up thought, feeling, and behavior from fruitful new perspectives, (2) a correspondingly new account of the course of Western history seen from the point of view of the degrees of retention, surrender, and deformation of fundamental elements of the human endowment over time, and (3) a therapeutic program based on the present condition of that endowment.

About the Author

Marvin Bram is a Professor Emeritus of History. He has taught the origins of civilization, comparative civilizations, European intellectual history, and philosophy of history. His publications center in “symbolic history,” a discipline he constituted in the 1980s and continues to develop.