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Heroic Imagination describes the historical period and the wide manifestation of creativity that took place between 1815 and 1848 in Europe, from Napoleon's downfall in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 to the "Restoration" that sought to bring back the old order preceding the French Revolution. While revolutions and historical events were shaping the world, the "collective consciousness" of the public began to integrate with the creative consciousness...

"Reconsidering one of our central political dogmas, A.J. Conyers argues that the principle of toleration - as reformulated over the last four centuries - is not the bulwark of social harmony that it appears. In The Long Truce, he shows that toleration, by banishing questions of ultimate meaning from public life, has aided the consolidation of power in the state while debasing our politics and undermining social cohesion."--Jacket.

Ten years in the making and already receiving wide critica acclaim, The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new inquiry into the evolution of our culture's consciousness, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. This is the epic sstory of our intellectual and spiritual heritage, a story never before told with such breadth of focus and clarity of insight.