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"Represents in a modified form my public lectures on The twilight of sensate culture given at the Lowell institute in February, 1941. It is based upon four volumes of my Social and cultural dynamics."- | "Represents in a modified form my public lectures on The twilight of sensate culture given at the Lowell institute in February, 1941. It is based upon four volumes of my Social and cultural dynamics."- | ||
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"Dr. Sorokin seeks to ward off the current pessimism initiated by Spengler in The [[Decline of the West]] by an impassioned yet scholarly appeal to intelligent observers | |||
of society on behalf of his cyclical theory of social change." | |||
- Louis A. Ryan [https://rogersmusingscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/review-of-the-crisis-of-our-age-the-thomist-july-1942.pdf] | |||
=Summary= | =Summary= | ||
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* Book: The Crisis of Our Age: the social and cultural outlook
URL = https://archive.org/details/crisisofourageso00soro_0
"Represents in a modified form my public lectures on The twilight of sensate culture given at the Lowell institute in February, 1941. It is based upon four volumes of my Social and cultural dynamics."-
Contextual Quote
"Dr. Sorokin seeks to ward off the current pessimism initiated by Spengler in The Decline of the West by an impassioned yet scholarly appeal to intelligent observers of society on behalf of his cyclical theory of social change."
- Louis A. Ryan [1]
Summary
Richard Simpson:
"The Crisis of Our Age (1941) is a short and highly readable popularization of some of the ideas first presented in the Dynamics. We are going through a profound crisis. The nature of this crisis is misunderstood by those who seek to explain it in terms of such factors as democracy, liberty, totalitarianism, communism, militarism, international rivalries, and the like. Sorokin does not deny the importance of these factors, but he sees them as manifestations of a deeper movement: the decline of an overripe Sensate supersystem.
He predicts that we will pass through several stages in our process of decline and renascence: crisis, ordeal, catharsis, charisma, and resurrection."
(https://www.suz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:00000000-36d7-41d4-0000-000064b51e55/simpson_sorokin.pdf)