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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... Moses as Epic Hero 35 chapter four chapter five Socrates and Jesus: Internalizing the Heroic 73 Paul: Universal Synthesis 105 PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS chapter six Augustine Chooses Jerusalem 127 chapter seven Dante, Rome (Athens) ...
... Moses as Epic Hero 35 chapter four chapter five Socrates and Jesus: Internalizing the Heroic 73 Paul: Universal Synthesis 105 PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS chapter six Augustine Chooses Jerusalem 127 chapter seven Dante, Rome (Athens) ...
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... Moses , roughly contemporary Bronze Age figures ( very approximately around 1200 B.C. ) , both of whom were fundamental to their civiliza- tions , both flawed , both heroic and exemplary , we will go on to see the tensions shift within ...
... Moses , roughly contemporary Bronze Age figures ( very approximately around 1200 B.C. ) , both of whom were fundamental to their civiliza- tions , both flawed , both heroic and exemplary , we will go on to see the tensions shift within ...
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... Moses— these and the other great figures never died . The modes of being and in- sight represented by these works are absolutely permanent things , and the great conversation that goes on among them and between us and them is immensely ...
... Moses— these and the other great figures never died . The modes of being and in- sight represented by these works are absolutely permanent things , and the great conversation that goes on among them and between us and them is immensely ...
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... Moses in the Hebrew Bible. The Homeric epics became fundamental for two large reasons. The great poet we call Homer possessed enormous talent. Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and the others cannot compete. In addition, Greek culture did some- thing ...
... Moses in the Hebrew Bible. The Homeric epics became fundamental for two large reasons. The great poet we call Homer possessed enormous talent. Beowulf, Gilgamesh, and the others cannot compete. In addition, Greek culture did some- thing ...
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... Moses moves from the creation of the universe in Genesis through the escape from Egypt , the reception of the Law on Sinai , various wanderings and military campaigns , and ends with the epic death of Moses as he views the Promised Land ...
... Moses moves from the creation of the universe in Genesis through the escape from Egypt , the reception of the Law on Sinai , various wanderings and military campaigns , and ends with the epic death of Moses as he views the Promised Land ...
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