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Franz Borkenciu €ND fiND B€GINNING On the Generations of Cultures ond the Origins of the West Richard louuenthal, Cditor Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/endbeginningongeOOOObork End and Beginning European Perspectives A Series of the Columbia University Press End and Beginning On the Generations of Cultures and the Origins of the West ii /i Franz Borkenau Edited with an Introduction by Richard Lowenthal New York Columbia University Press fF«„1 J Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Borkenau, Franz, 1900-1957. End and beginning: (European perspectives) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Civilization, Occidental. 1. Lowenthal, Richard, 1908- II. Title. III. Series CB245.B66 909'.09821 81-1789 ISBN 0-231-05066-6 AACR2 ISBN 0-231-05067-4 (pbk.) Columbia University Press New York Guildford, Surrey Copyright © 1981 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Cloth bound editions of Columbia University Press books are Smyth-sewn and printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Contents Preface vii Editor’s Introduction 1 Part I. Culture Cycles and Culture Generations 31 1. Thinking Beyond Spengler 33 2. Toynbee and the Culture Cycle 47 3. The Antinomy of Death and the Culture Generations 64 4. From Minoan to Greek Mythology 96 5. The Philosophical Background: Beyond Space and Time 121 Part II. Contributions to the Origin of the West 131 Linguistic Prelude 1. The Rise of the I-Form of Speech 133 Germanic Mythology—a Mirror o f Cultural Change 2. The Mythical Starting Point (fragment] 202 3. Historic Layers in the Siegfried Saga 215 4. The Archetypes in the Siegfried Myth 238 5. The Gods of the Ancient Germans 255 The Emergence of Western Christianity 6. Pelagius, the Irish and the African Church 289 7. The Beginnings of Western Monasticism [fragment] 328 vi Contents 8. Boniface and the Anglo-Irish Impact on the Frankish Churches 357 9. Rome’s Break with Byzantium as Shown in Christian Painting 365 Confluence: End and Beginning 10. Primal Crime and “Social Paranoia” in the Dark Ages 381 11. Stages on the Road to Western Civilization 392 12. Postscriptum: The Chanson de Roland 417 Part III. Reflections on Present and Future 435 1. After the Atom: Life out of Death or Life in Death? [1947] 437 2. Will Technology Destroy Civilization? [1951] 449 3. Toynbee and the Future of the Jews [1955] 460 Appendix I: The Sources and Their Handling 471 Appendix II: Books by Franz Borkenau 475 Index 477
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