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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... ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , it is indisputable that modern science emerged in Western Europe and nowhere else . The reason for this momentous occurrence must therefore be sought in some unique set of circum- stances that ...
... ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , it is indisputable that modern science emerged in Western Europe and nowhere else . The reason for this momentous occurrence must therefore be sought in some unique set of circum- stances that ...
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... ancient and modern . Islamic scholars made important contributions to the development of Western science , though , as has been pointed out here , Islam did not succeed as the West did in institutionalizing science . During the general ...
... ancient and modern . Islamic scholars made important contributions to the development of Western science , though , as has been pointed out here , Islam did not succeed as the West did in institutionalizing science . During the general ...
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... ancient epics as Beowulf, Roland, Niebelungenleid, and Gilgamesh. As we will see, the Homeric epic material has roots in common with the other major epic emerging in the Middle East, the epic of the patriarchs and Moses in the Hebrew ...
... ancient epics as Beowulf, Roland, Niebelungenleid, and Gilgamesh. As we will see, the Homeric epic material has roots in common with the other major epic emerging in the Middle East, the epic of the patriarchs and Moses in the Hebrew ...
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... ancient roots . In what follows , this heroic phase will be represented by the epic of Moses , by the Mosead as it might be called , consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible . The chronologies here , as in all ancient ...
... ancient roots . In what follows , this heroic phase will be represented by the epic of Moses , by the Mosead as it might be called , consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible . The chronologies here , as in all ancient ...
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... ancient world a city destroyed often provided the foundation for another city , and it now seems estab- lished that the Troy described by Homer met this fate . Archaeologists , beginning with the inspired and eccentric Heinrich ...
... ancient world a city destroyed often provided the foundation for another city , and it now seems estab- lished that the Troy described by Homer met this fate . Archaeologists , beginning with the inspired and eccentric Heinrich ...
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