Gregory Melleuish is Honorary Fellow at Campion College, Australia. He was formerly Professor of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Is the West Special? World History and Western Civilisation, Australian Intellectuals: Their Strange History and Pathological Tendencies, Cultural Liberalism in Australia and The Power of Ideas: Essays on Australian History and Politics. He is the co-author of G. R. G. Menzies: The Last Puritan: The World Picture of Australia’s Longest Serving Prime Minister.Susanna G. Rizzo is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

• Prolegomena; Introduction: The Rule of Reason and the Patterning of Western Civilization; 1. The Evolution of Western Culture; 2. Western Culture in the ‘Post Era’; 3. Christianisation and How it Shaped the West; 4. The Coming of Leviathan; 5. Cultural Transformation and Cancel Culture: The Case of the French Revolution; Epilogue

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