In Autopsy of Revolution, Jacques Ellul takes a scalpel to the idea of revolution itself, peeling back the layers of romanticism, ideology, and historical myth that surround it.
Just roughly the timing of final split with the East and the awakening of a completely different religion, focused on the individual ego, individual guilt, confession, also machine thinking, will to infinity, the rise of the Mary cult, not long after the myth of progress from Joachim of Floris etc.
Births all the central axioms of western European culture as we know it in the Gothic era.
Yes all the dogmatic axioms of western revolutions are unique to our culture. It has the Gothic element of Crusade and Inquisition always buried within it. Every solution must be universal and ever lasting. It's been the same story for a 1000 years
Just roughly the timing of final split with the East and the awakening of a completely different religion, focused on the individual ego, individual guilt, confession, also machine thinking, will to infinity, the rise of the Mary cult, not long after the myth of progress from Joachim of Floris etc.
Births all the central axioms of western European culture as we know it in the Gothic era.
Yes all the dogmatic axioms of western revolutions are unique to our culture. It has the Gothic element of Crusade and Inquisition always buried within it. Every solution must be universal and ever lasting. It's been the same story for a 1000 years