Surviving the Future [Hardcover]

Arnold Toynbee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 1971

This book answered universal questions in a way framed in a special way for younger people. Because Toynbee answered these questions to a group of students from Kyoto University, it becomes a dialogue between East and West. The book is made from seven essays in which Toynbee, the eminent historian, examines the present with a eye to producing a peaceful and profitable future.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; First Edition edition (July 22, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192152521
• ISBN-13: 978-0192152527
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,596,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The final warning !, December 7, 2004

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This review is from: Surviving the Future (Hardcover)

The maestro Arnold Toynbee is widely known as a man who dedicated his long life entirely to study of the development of the societies and civilizations and above all the sense of the human life.

The man of our time is searching the possibility of re conciliate the conflict between tradition and progress , religion and science , the individual and social necessities .

Toynbee intends to give a humanist answer to configure a new way of living among the young people .

If you win , says Toynbee , you must to preserve the qualities of the youth even you have reached the mature age and have carried with the involved responsibilities. The qualities of the youth are before anything , disinterestedness and the amplitude of goals . Keep them . You will have much more necessity of them when your age has been duplicated.

And please remind once more this wise statement of Octavio Paz who in one of his accustomed genius touch produced this amazing sentence : The past is function of the future . The future will makes the death stand up .