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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... The most central , the one that goes furthest , I think , in covering the facts , has been called " Athens and Jerusalem . " As used in this way those two nouns refer simultaneously to two cities and to two goals of the human mind X ...
... The most central , the one that goes furthest , I think , in covering the facts , has been called " Athens and Jerusalem . " As used in this way those two nouns refer simultaneously to two cities and to two goals of the human mind X ...
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... called it , a growing number of students and professors long for something more serious and more lasting . Therefore my title is Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe because of the intellectual force and civilizing energy of the ...
... called it , a growing number of students and professors long for something more serious and more lasting . Therefore my title is Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe because of the intellectual force and civilizing energy of the ...
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... called it , " with Christ's soul . " This new man , the Übermensch , was , as Strauss put it , “ meant to unite Jerusalem and Athens at the highest level . " Of course the Superior Man " at the highest level " remains a myth . We can ...
... called it , " with Christ's soul . " This new man , the Übermensch , was , as Strauss put it , “ meant to unite Jerusalem and Athens at the highest level . " Of course the Superior Man " at the highest level " remains a myth . We can ...
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... called , consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible . The chronologies here , as in all ancient works , are complicated and sub- ject to dispute , but , strikingly , Genesis seems to have been written down at about the same ...
... called , consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible . The chronologies here , as in all ancient works , are complicated and sub- ject to dispute , but , strikingly , Genesis seems to have been written down at about the same ...
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... called in most translations King Agamemnon , but he is not an absolute monarch in the Renais- sance sense . He is a prince among lesser but also powerful princes . Whether Achilles , a much younger man and commanding the largest ...
... called in most translations King Agamemnon , but he is not an absolute monarch in the Renais- sance sense . He is a prince among lesser but also powerful princes . Whether Achilles , a much younger man and commanding the largest ...
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