A World Without Heroes, George Roche
A World Without Heroes, George Roche
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A World Without Heroes
The Modern Tragedy

Author: George Roche

Narrator: Robert Morris

Unabridged: 12 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/1998

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

An elegant essay in the tradition of Chesterton, Lewis, Merton, and Muggeridge, George Roches A World without Heroes rebukes secular humanism as the most dehumanizing force of our modern age. This ringing defense of Christianityhumorous, insightful, and uncompromisingtakes careful aim at those ideas which have shriveled the will and faith of the West: Marxism, Dadaism, Aesthetism, Empiricism.We live, says Roche, in a world without heroes, a world which rarely challenges evolution as the origin of all life, an era enervated by materialism, in which to be Christian means to be stereotyped as narrowminded, unenlightened and, worst of all, unscientific. Roche denies this antiheroic vision of humanity in a penetrating study which encompasses four centuries of cultural, intellectual, scientific, and Christian thought.

About George Roche

George Roche (1935–2006) was a renowned scholar and college leader. He had a PhD in history and worked as seminar director at the Foundation for Economic Education before serving as the president of Hillsdale College from 1971–1999. As the youngest college president in the country, he successfully raised the college to national prominence and changed the face of Hillsdale. He is the author of numerous books, including A World Without Heroes.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonathan on October 04, 2019

6/10 "Of all creatures, man is the only one that seeks meaning beyond the physical" In this work, Roche examines the death of the hero figure in culture. Essentially, he believes that society requires hero's to emulate, and by so doing, bring the lower portions of society up, as they strive towards t......more

Goodreads review by Norm on March 06, 2015

The method for suicide of western civilization. An extensive examination of what the author calls the 'anti-hero', and not nearly so much of the hero and the spirit of heroism. The work delves deeply into history for the source of the beliefs, really philosophies, of the anti-hero clearly showing that......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 10, 2017

I have been reading more of these philosophy-oriented books. It's not the best for audiobooks, because the ideas aren't given in a narrative and thus the book requires a fair bit of thought to follow. I enjoyed thinking about the illogical side of logically-derived determinism. I also hadn't thought......more

Goodreads review by Eric on November 14, 2021

Quite possibly the best listen of this current year. Roche tells us in no uncertain terms that Christianity is the answer to a goodly number of our current problems, and that secularism and scientism are the cause of them. A truly masterful work.......more

Goodreads review by thethousanderclub on May 31, 2013

Adam C. Zern shares his thoughts . . . "I learned of this book while listening to a speech by Dallin H. Oaks. He referenced a particular quote from the book and I became interested. George Roche, the author, was president of Hillsdale college at one time. The subject matter of the book deals with wha......more

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