The Cult Of Power
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At a moment when democracy trembled under the shadow of fascism and totalitarianism, Rex Warner delivered a searing intellectual reckoning with the forces threatening to consume the modern world. The Cult of Power presents a collection of penetrating essays in which Warner — poet, novelist, and classical scholar — dissects the seductive appeal of authoritarian ideology, tracing how the worship of power corrupts individuals, institutions, and entire civilisations. With the urgency of a man writing against the tide of history, he argues that the abdication of moral and political responsibility is not merely a failure of governance, but a profound spiritual catastrophe. Warner writes with the lucid, unflinching authority of a classical humanist who sees in the political crises of the mid-twentieth century a direct echo of the decline he had studied in ancient Greece and Rome. His prose is spare yet charged, blending philosophical rigour with the passion of a committed antifascist, and situating the political debates of his era within a sweeping moral framework. A vital document of its time, The Cult of Power raises questions about conscience, complicity, and the human hunger for domination that remain disturbingly unanswered.
Author: Rex Warner
Format: Hardback
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At a moment when democracy trembled under the shadow of fascism and totalitarianism, Rex Warner delivered a searing intellectual reckoning with the forces threatening to consume the modern world. The Cult of Power presents a collection of penetrating essays in which Warner — poet, novelist, and classical scholar — dissects the seductive appeal of authoritarian ideology, tracing how the worship of power corrupts individuals, institutions, and entire civilisations. With the urgency of a man writing against the tide of history, he argues that the abdication of moral and political responsibility is not merely a failure of governance, but a profound spiritual catastrophe. Warner writes with the lucid, unflinching authority of a classical humanist who sees in the political crises of the mid-twentieth century a direct echo of the decline he had studied in ancient Greece and Rome. His prose is spare yet charged, blending philosophical rigour with the passion of a committed antifascist, and situating the political debates of his era within a sweeping moral framework. A vital document of its time, The Cult of Power raises questions about conscience, complicity, and the human hunger for domination that remain disturbingly unanswered.