Looking Back on Progress (Perennial Wisdom)

Lord Northbourne

Northbourne, Christopher James

Religion & Spirituality

Angelico Press

Collected essays on critqueing the belief in progress from a traditionalist point of view from which so-called progress oftens appears as regress.

Looking Back on Progress

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

<p>A thoroughgoing critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, pointing out the false assumptions at the root of many contemporary problems.</p>

Religion in the Modern World: Including Correspondence with Thomas Merton

MERTON, THOMAS

Philosophy

<p>Lord Northbourne (1896-1982) was a man of exceptional vision, who already in the 1940s diagnosed in detail the sickness of modern society as stemming from the severance of its organic links with the wholeness of life. A leading figure in the early organic farming movement, his writings profoundly affected such other pioneers as Sir Albert Howard, Rolf Gardiner, Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, and H. J. Massingham. His path led him on to a profound study of comparative religion, traditional metaphysics, and the science of symbols, which he employed in incisive observations on the character of modern society. His later writings exercised considerable influence on his younger contemporaries E. F. Schumacher and Thomas Merton, and in many ways anticipate the essays of Wendell Berry. The republication of this milestone ecological text will be followed by three volumes of Northbourne's later metaphysical and cultural writings.</p>

Look to the Land

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis

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