Best Selling Books by Arnold J. Toynbee

Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan''s literary giants—forerunners of today''s modern Japanese writers. Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to dynamic social developments, in effect a peaceful revolution. The humanistic movement that emerged during this period is epitomized in and popular arts and letters by such famous figures as Basho, the pilgrim poet; Saikaku, novelist of the gilded age, and Chikamatsu, Japan''s greatest playwright. In that stirring period Basho wrote such undying poetry as: "The lark sings through the long spring day, but never enough for its heart''s content." Saikaku noted that "love is darkness, but in the land of love the darkest night is bright as noon." Chikamatsu wrote wisely that "art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal." In Japan it was the beginning of the end of the feudal Dark Ages—even though the political ramifications would not be manifest until the advent of the Meiji Restoration.

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Elinizde bulunan bu çalışma, hilafetin ilgasını, dönemin uluslararası ilişkileri çerçevesinde ele almakta ve bu süreci hazırlayan gelişmeleri değerlendirmeye tabi tutmaktadır. 1920''lerin sonlarına doğru kaleme alınmış olan bu çalışma, yirminci yüzyılın önemli tarihçilerinden biri olan ve uzun yıllar İngiliz istihbarat dairesinde de çalışmış bulunan Arnold J. Toynbee''nin hilafet problemine ilişkin gözlem ve değerlendirmelerinden oluşmaktadır. Doç. Dr. Hasan Aktaş tarafından Türkçeye kazandırılan bu çalışmanın önemi; hilafet kurumunu tarihsel bir perspektifte ele alarak bu bağlamda verdiği sistematik bilgiden kaynaklanmaktadır.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.

Poco antes de su muerte, Arnold Toynbee escribio el primer capitulo de este libro. ''Toda criatura humana viva sujeta a la muerte dice Toynbee se afana por conservar la vida... Algunas especies no humanas lloran, al igual que los seres humanos, por la perdida del companero... Pero de la fauna que habita la biosfera en torno del planeta Tierra, los seres humanos parecen ser los unicos que saben que han de morir.''Solo que, a diferencia del cuerpo fisico que al morir se desintegra para reintegrarse a la materia universal, la conciencia es invisible e impalpable.Que ocurre, pues, con la conciencia que ordena el vivir de un hombre? En una palabra: que ocurre con la personalidad? Este es el punto de partida de una indagacion apasionante. En este volumen se reunen respuestas al dilema de la vida despues de la muerte dadas desde perspectivas religiosas, antropologicas, cientificas, poeticas, en estudios sobre creencias de las sociedades primitivas de Cfrica, America, la India clasica, el Cercano Oriente, los pueblos islamicos y cristianos. La conclusion general es que la muerte no es el final. Un conjunto notable de escritores, filosofos, cientificos, ha procurado iluminar un ambito del que solo podemos tener experiencia cuando ya no podemos expresarla, pero del que poseemos intuiciones inapelables.En el deslumbrante capitulo final, Arthur KoestIer pasa revista a las hipotesis cientificas modernas, destaca la indole insustancial de elementos aparentemente concretos y elabora una teoria sobre la supervivencia que fascinara al lector mas esceptico.