Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationYale University Press, 1 Eki 2008 - 286 sayfa Although the essential books of Western civilization are no longer central in our courses or in our thoughts, they retain their ability to energize us intellectually, says Jeffrey Hart in this powerful book. He now presents a guide to some of these literary works, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all who wish to understand the roots of their civilization and the basis for its achievements. Hart focuses on the productive tension between the classical and biblical strains in our civilization, between a life based on cognition and one based on faith and piety. He begins with the Iliad and Exodus, linking Achilles and Moses as Bronze Age heroic figures. Closely analysing texts and illuminating them in unexpected ways, he moves on to Socrates and Jesus, who internalized the heroic, continues with Paul and Augustine and their Christian synthesis, addresses Dante, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Moliere, and Voltaire, and concludes with the novel as represented by Crime and Punishment and The Great Gatsby. Hart maintains that the dialectical tensions suggested by this survey account for the restlessness and singular achievements of the West and that the essential books can provide the substance and energy currently missed by both students and educated readers. |
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... Divine Comedy , Odys- seus brilliantly . As we see here , the greatest books tend to talk with one another in continuous dialogue . The Iliad and the Odyssey were brought to Athens in their present form by Pisistratus , who ruled , with ...
... Divine Comedy , Odys- seus brilliantly . As we see here , the greatest books tend to talk with one another in continuous dialogue . The Iliad and the Odyssey were brought to Athens in their present form by Pisistratus , who ruled , with ...
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... divine power that would be beyond squabbling , specialized , local divini- ties . In Homer , final power resides with a sometimes negligent Zeus . From another perspective , the Olympic gods and goddesses in Homer represent a sort of ...
... divine power that would be beyond squabbling , specialized , local divini- ties . In Homer , final power resides with a sometimes negligent Zeus . From another perspective , the Olympic gods and goddesses in Homer represent a sort of ...
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... divine sanction to the Sabbath . What I have tried to do here is indicate the rich suggestiveness of the Creation poem and its essential and logical priority in the epic of mono- theism . In the unfolding of this narrative , the ...
... divine sanction to the Sabbath . What I have tried to do here is indicate the rich suggestiveness of the Creation poem and its essential and logical priority in the epic of mono- theism . In the unfolding of this narrative , the ...
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... divine mission , that of the law and nation - building , he becomes a powerful rebel against the Egyptian poly- theistic system , along with its derivative monarchy and bureaucracy , hands down a Law rooted in the nature of Being 44 THE ...
... divine mission , that of the law and nation - building , he becomes a powerful rebel against the Egyptian poly- theistic system , along with its derivative monarchy and bureaucracy , hands down a Law rooted in the nature of Being 44 THE ...
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