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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... comes to the written narrative through centuries of recollection . He is much more solidly placeable in history than Achilles , yet there is no important evidence that Moses ever lived . There is no independent evidence that the Hebrew ...
... comes to the written narrative through centuries of recollection . He is much more solidly placeable in history than Achilles , yet there is no important evidence that Moses ever lived . There is no independent evidence that the Hebrew ...
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... comes from creation , the rebuilding of the civilized city — while knowing that it too will fall — and in the perfection of all areas of life through art , whether shown in a goblet or a palace . The Homeric world and the Bronze Age ...
... comes from creation , the rebuilding of the civilized city — while knowing that it too will fall — and in the perfection of all areas of life through art , whether shown in a goblet or a palace . The Homeric world and the Bronze Age ...
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... comes at the beginning and is about the original beginning some twenty billion years ago , to use another vocabulary — and is fundamental to the entire Hebrew epic of monotheism . Apparently written down in the eighth century b.c. , it ...
... comes at the beginning and is about the original beginning some twenty billion years ago , to use another vocabulary — and is fundamental to the entire Hebrew epic of monotheism . Apparently written down in the eighth century b.c. , it ...
Sayfa 42
... it is impossible not to pause here with an example of the narrative depth achieved by Genesis , devoting a few words to Abraham , with whom the narrative comes forward with a huge figure recognizable 42 THE GREAT NARRATIVE.
... it is impossible not to pause here with an example of the narrative depth achieved by Genesis , devoting a few words to Abraham , with whom the narrative comes forward with a huge figure recognizable 42 THE GREAT NARRATIVE.
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Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart. whom the narrative comes forward with a huge figure recognizable as a particular human being in history . Before Abraham , all the characters— Adam and Eve , Abel and Cain , Noah and ...
Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart. whom the narrative comes forward with a huge figure recognizable as a particular human being in history . Before Abraham , all the characters— Adam and Eve , Abel and Cain , Noah and ...
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