THE FIRST IS THAT OUR GENERAL STORY ABOUT THE HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION IS FACTUALLY WRONG, SO, WHY DON'T WE JUST START WITH THAT, AND WHAT IS THIS FALSE NARRATIVE THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN TAUGHT?

Instead, she wishes to dismantle the “grand narrative” of Western civilization because it is historically distorted and is likely to be used for racist or chauvinist politics today.

The narrative is that Western history is nothing more than a catalog of crimes, and traditional culture is the source of oppression. What do we do? How do we save Western civilization? How do we ...

And all, Mac Sweeney argues, prove that the existing grand narrative of Western civilization is “manifestly untrue and ideologically bankrupt.” She uses this diverse set of lives to make the ...

The medieval Arab scholar Al-Kindi is the focal point of this argument against the “grand narrative of Western civilization,” and against the thesis advanced by Samuel Huntington in his influential ...

The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream among rulers and thinkers in Europe and North America. It sounds good, yet industrialization, the two world wars of the ...

Due to the loose narrative structure and emphasis on ... and humanity's pursuit of civilization. The Western has made a modern resurgence and one Guy Pearce film from the 2000s deserves to become ...

but this also includes multiculturalism and embracing alternatives such as world history at the expense of learning the coherent narrative of Western civilization. Too many teachers, alas ...