Civilization before the court of history. Toynbi A.J.

The sensational labor “Civilization before the Court of History” was published from the pen of Arnold James Toynbee - the author of 67 books translated into 30 languages ​​of the world, and almost the most read and discussed scientist for most of the 20th century.

The hereditary British intellectual, an experienced diplomat, who did a lot to overcome the consequences of two world wars, Toynbee went down in history as a fundamental critic of the concept of Eurocentrism and the creator of the new civilizational theory. In the midst of the Cold War, in the atmosphere of the confrontation between the capitalist West and the Communist East, the English thinker consistently defended the position that the salvation of the planet can only be in search of the mid -war pole, and the role of religions that are called to contribute to the spiritual in this salvation becomes extremely important in this salvation. improvement of mankind.

The book proposed to readers included theoretical articles mainly related to 1947 - it was this year that Arnold Toynby appeared on the cover of Time magazine, whose heading read: “The most provocative historical theory written in England from the time of” Capital "Karl Marx."

For students of philosophical, historical, cultural, political and sociological specialties, as well as for everyone who is interested in the history of world civilizations.