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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... Paul: Universal Synthesis 105 PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS chapter six Augustine Chooses Jerusalem 127 chapter seven Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor 138 Hamlet's Great Song 169 chapter eight chapter nine Voltaire 187 The ...
... Paul: Universal Synthesis 105 PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS chapter six Augustine Chooses Jerusalem 127 chapter seven Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor 138 Hamlet's Great Song 169 chapter eight chapter nine Voltaire 187 The ...
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... Paul Cantor says in his excellent recent book on Hamlet , " The conflict between the classical and the Christian has been central to Western civilization , and has produced the basis for both its proudest and its most deeply ...
... Paul Cantor says in his excellent recent book on Hamlet , " The conflict between the classical and the Christian has been central to Western civilization , and has produced the basis for both its proudest and its most deeply ...
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... Paul and to Philo of Alexandria , a Platonizing Jewish philosopher , both of whom were contemporaries of Jesus . Grant , however , concludes that it was Clement and Origen who institutionalized the dialectic between Athens and Jerusalem ...
... Paul and to Philo of Alexandria , a Platonizing Jewish philosopher , both of whom were contemporaries of Jesus . Grant , however , concludes that it was Clement and Origen who institutionalized the dialectic between Athens and Jerusalem ...
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... Paul and holiness , and Dante holds the polarities together in a grand synthesis , Aristotle - Cicero - Virgil - Science , but also Paul - Augustine - Scripture - Aquinas . Hamlet contains multiple contradictions , saliently the command ...
... Paul and holiness , and Dante holds the polarities together in a grand synthesis , Aristotle - Cicero - Virgil - Science , but also Paul - Augustine - Scripture - Aquinas . Hamlet contains multiple contradictions , saliently the command ...
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... Paul Tillich , God is the “ ground of being . " Job pleads eloquently for justice ; God reminds him to whom he is speaking . The book of Job is not about justice , but about the ultimate basis of everything . Not surprisingly ...
... Paul Tillich , God is the “ ground of being . " Job pleads eloquently for justice ; God reminds him to whom he is speaking . The book of Job is not about justice , but about the ultimate basis of everything . Not surprisingly ...
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