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What made the West 'western'? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that the modern world has destroyed western culture and civilisation without gaining anything in return, leaving contemporary man with a spiritual and cultural gap that no amount of material wealth can fill. This is a brave and challenging attempt to explain how and why this has happened and present a new concept of modern history for our complacent times.
| Pt. 1 | Exposition | 1 |
| The making of western man | 1 | |
| The method in the madness of modernity | 4 | |
| The unfashionable thinking behind this book | 8 | |
| The birth of Westman | 20 | |
| Westman's youth | 28 | |
| Looking out by looking in | 30 | |
| The ultimate height of Westman's soul | 44 | |
| Modern civilization against western culture | 52 | |
| Cometh the new man | 60 | |
| Pt. 2 | Development | 67 |
| The battle plan of Modman | 67 | |
| Modman takes on God | 71 | |
| Compromise as the midwife of Westman | 88 | |
| Modman's first victories | 94 | |
| Modern science against western God | 98 | |
| The totalitarian scientist | 101 | |
| The unenlightening enlightenment | 112 | |
| Modman divides into two | 116 | |
| The first political state | 121 | |
| The rolling juggernaut of the modern state | 131 | |
| The champion of the nihilist | 136 | |
| Pt. 3 | Recapitulation | 145 |
| He who pays the piper | 145 | |
| Is the world safe from democracy? | 161 | |
| Getting down to business | 175 | |
| The false prophet | 189 | |
| Unheeded lessons of history | 193 | |
| Glossocracy : Modman develops his own weapon | 199 | |
| The non-language of politics | 210 | |
| While stocks last | 217 | |
| The war to end all wars | 223 | |
| Art imitating death | 238 | |
| The trailblazers of nihilism | 245 | |
| Educating Philistine Emiles | 251 | |
| Language and other victims of modernity | 258 | |
| Law versus justice | 264 | |
| Speak no evil - or else | 275 | |
| Pt. 4 | Coda | 287 |
| The mopping up | 287 | |
| The Spanish detour | 307 | |
| The partition of the world | 310 | |
| All you need is love | 316 | |
| Drugs and rock 'n roll | 323 | |
| Opposites attracting | 329 | |
| Is there life after death? | 334 |
Overview
What made the West 'western'? And has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative and stimulating polemic argues that the modern world has destroyed western culture and civilisation without gaining anything in return, leaving contemporary man with a spiritual and cultural gap that no amount of material wealth can fill. This is a brave and challenging attempt to explain how and why this has happened and present a new concept of modern history for our complacent times.