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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... appear often in the same sentence , but they agreed at least upon this . The Athens - Jerusalem paradigm is not exactly a commonplace , and cer- tainly not one in the discussion of literature , but enough philosophers have argued for ...
... appear often in the same sentence , but they agreed at least upon this . The Athens - Jerusalem paradigm is not exactly a commonplace , and cer- tainly not one in the discussion of literature , but enough philosophers have argued for ...
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... appear to be those of the city Homer describes . Homer's description of the area corresponds to much that can be seen today . His topography , including the famous adjacent islands , is accurate . Sediment has changed the old beach ...
... appear to be those of the city Homer describes . Homer's description of the area corresponds to much that can be seen today . His topography , including the famous adjacent islands , is accurate . Sediment has changed the old beach ...
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... appear in both poems , and both raise the same important questions in different ways . The Iliad is intense , high pressured , tightening the knot of tragedy to the point of madness . The Odyssey is spacious , like the seas sailed by ...
... appear in both poems , and both raise the same important questions in different ways . The Iliad is intense , high pressured , tightening the knot of tragedy to the point of madness . The Odyssey is spacious , like the seas sailed by ...
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... appears before men in the great hall of Menelaus's palace , her maids place before her the symbols of womanhood — the distaff , an instrument for winding cotton or wool , and her work box , both of which are golden . When she leads a ...
... appears before men in the great hall of Menelaus's palace , her maids place before her the symbols of womanhood — the distaff , an instrument for winding cotton or wool , and her work box , both of which are golden . When she leads a ...
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... appear Something is marked . A noise . A note , perhaps . Perhaps A change of temperature . Or else , as now . The scent of oceanic lavender . That even as it drew his mind Drew from the sealcolored sea onto the beach A mist that moved ...
... appear Something is marked . A noise . A note , perhaps . Perhaps A change of temperature . Or else , as now . The scent of oceanic lavender . That even as it drew his mind Drew from the sealcolored sea onto the beach A mist that moved ...
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