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YANNIS’ TRILOGY
In Bed with Madness
The Greek Inheritance
The Future of the Past
The Judaeo-Christian culture of faith followed by the capitalist culture of profit stifled the earlier Greek culture of joy. Can a return to the roots of the West’s philosophical tradition give an answer to the problems of our day? This is the subject of Yannis Andricopoulos’ trilogy published in both the UK and the USA by Imprint Academic in March 2008. Yannis Andricopoulos, Ph.D., formerly London correspondent of Athenian dailies and editor of i-to-i magazine, is author of several books on Greek and European twentieth century history. He is also co-founder of Skyros, the holistic holidays company.
Yannis’ Trilogy is published
in the UK by Imprint Academic, PO Box 200, Exeter EX5 5HY, UK ,and
in the US by Imprint Academic, Philosophy Documentation Center, PO Box 7147, Charlottesville, VA 22906-7147, USA
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Yannis Andricopoulos
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In Bed with Madness
Trying to Make Sense in a World that Doesn’t
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Globalism endowed us with McDonald’s, ‘the world’s local bank’ and English football teams without English players. It has also given us an irrepressible desire for more as enough is never good enough – the blanket is always too short. Meanwhile, our personal world as much as our social and political realities seem to have blithely surrendered to the madness of a civilization which views anything from corporate greed and global warming to military adventures and religious fundamentalism as normal as a door banging in the wind. The destructive capabilities of our age, Yannis Andricopoulos holds, have run too far ahead of our wisdom. However, the process is not irreversible if our thinking can postpone its retirement. In Bed with Madness is ‘a well-argued, powerful and profound indictment of contemporary culture’, stylishly and humorously written – a reviewer said he would have bought it just for its wit!
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Yannis Andricopoulos
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The Greek Inheritance
Ancient Greek Wisdom for the Digital Era
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The culture of ancient Greece, a culture of joy, was replaced by the Judaeo-Christian culture of faith and then by the capitalist culture of profit. Yet, it is the only culture worth fighting for if we want a world run by humans rather than theocracies, nanotechnologies or private equity funds. Yannis Andricopoulos views the Greek culture as the front line of the battle against individualism, materialism, authoritarianism and religious extremism. In a world turned into the corporations’ playground, this is also the battle for human values, civic virtues and an ethical society. The Greek Inheritance traces the conflict between the Greek values and those of the repressive, religious or capitalist order throughout the millenniums. The book is challenging and well-written with a light, humorous touch.
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The Future of the Past
From the Culture of Profit to the Culture of Joy
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Universalism in its old forms has, just like door-to-door milkmen, gone for good. But the search for some universally accepted ethical standards cannot be abandoned – values are not colourless as the wind and odourless as thoughts. Looking into our world from the classical Greek point of view, Yannis Andricopoulos wonders whether we cannot place Justice again at the heart of our morality, look forward to the happiness of the individual rather than the upgrading of his or her consumer fantasies, and endeavour to create, not more wealth, but a just and honourable world. The Future of the Past, noted for its elegance and humour, is written in ‘a lively, challenging style guaranteeing to stimulate debate on the most pressing issues of our time’.
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