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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... represents a scriptural tradition of disciplined insight and the aspiration to holiness . Together they propose the ... represent a continuing revelation of Western thought and feeling . Such revelation is endless , almost by definition ...
... represents a scriptural tradition of disciplined insight and the aspiration to holiness . Together they propose the ... represent a continuing revelation of Western thought and feeling . Such revelation is endless , almost by definition ...
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... represented by a succession of indis- pensable works reflecting to a considerable degree phases of Western civilization . The heroic virtue of Achilles will be internalized by Socrates as heroic philosophy . The Commandments of Moses ...
... represented by a succession of indis- pensable works reflecting to a considerable degree phases of Western civilization . The heroic virtue of Achilles will be internalized by Socrates as heroic philosophy . The Commandments of Moses ...
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... represents a profound interpretation of actuality . Off at the edge , do we place our bets on rational analysis or on the insights of acknowledged masters ? If the individual chooses one or the other , for Strauss the West must not . He ...
... represents a profound interpretation of actuality . Off at the edge , do we place our bets on rational analysis or on the insights of acknowledged masters ? If the individual chooses one or the other , for Strauss the West must not . He ...
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... represented religiously , but he had sensed for a moment the power of its spiritual aspiration . Lest I be misunderstood here , I repeat that there have been and are great civilizations besides the Western form . Indeed , Western ...
... represented religiously , but he had sensed for a moment the power of its spiritual aspiration . Lest I be misunderstood here , I repeat that there have been and are great civilizations besides the Western form . Indeed , Western ...
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... represented by these works are absolutely permanent things , and the great conversation that goes on among them and between us and them is immensely important . chapter two Athens: The Heroic Phase Plato, four centuries after Athens and ...
... represented by these works are absolutely permanent things , and the great conversation that goes on among them and between us and them is immensely important . chapter two Athens: The Heroic Phase Plato, four centuries after Athens and ...
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