![]() By now most intelligent liberals have joined conservatives in the reaction against the excesses of multiculturalism. Boorstin provides in ''The Seekers,'' the third volume of an ambitious trilogy that includes a history of Western science, ''The Discoverers,'' and of Western art, ''Theīut it may be that Boorstin represents the wave of the future rather than the receding past. ![]() In chanting, ''Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go!'' Nothing, therefore, could appear to be more untimely, and in some quarters unwelcome, than the synoptic overview of the history of Western religion and Jesse Jackson, joined students at Stanford ![]() It was not that long ago that a contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination, the Rev. Has been attacked as an ideological fiction enlisted in the service of evils like white supremacy. At the same time, the idea of Western civilization ![]() N recent decades, intellectuals have looked with suspicion on encyclopedic summae and comprehensive narratives. Boorstin leads a counterattack in the final volume of his trilogy on art, science and philosophy. ![]()
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