In her political writings, and especially in The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt claimed that the phenomenon of totalitarianism has broken the continuity of Occidental history, and has rendered meaningless most of our moral and political categories.
I am in awe of my father's dancing and theater-going three nights a week and my mother who -- a month after retirement -- enrolled with giddy enthusiasm in university courses on everything from archeology to occidental history to Eastern mysticism.
It's a conversation between the two pianos, where one character seems to have these ideas about classical music, about history, about occidental stuff, and then the other one is insisting that there's another way to go.
Within the history of occidental philosophy and science, Bacon identifies only three revolutions or periods of learning: the heyday of the Greeks and that of the Romans and Western Europe in his own time (Bacon IV [1901], 70ff).
It is 800 Occidental Avenue South, not Occidental Street.
Mr. Russell's offending words came in an article titled "The Western Contribution to World History," published in The Occidental Quarterly, a journal that's home to many far-right writers and scholars.
For instance, the first major promulgator of interest in Shang Yang's thought, Mai Menghua 麥夢華 (1874 1915), was positively attracted by the surprising similarity between Shang Yang's views of history and evolutionary ideas of Occidental social theorists (Li Yu-ning 1977: lviii-lix).
Probably because most Occidental countries set their roots on Greek history, culture and traditions.
But the event crystallized the key values Occidental promoted, which helped shape the man making history this week: critical thought and social justice.
I also polled students in my course on Obama's foreign policy at Occidental, and together with the UK students, I found that opinion was split about 50-50 as to whether history would consider Barack Obama a great political leader.
There were three specific objectives for this research: 1) to quantify stand structural attributes; 2) to reconstruct the history of T. occidentalis growth-release events; and 3) to characterize the relationship between T. occidentals radial growth and climate.
