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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... scene in Acts is intended to remind us of Socrates before the Athenian jury . Augustine begins as a Roman and a neoplatonist but chooses Paul and holiness , and Dante holds the polarities together in a grand synthesis , Aristotle ...
... scene in Acts is intended to remind us of Socrates before the Athenian jury . Augustine begins as a Roman and a neoplatonist but chooses Paul and holiness , and Dante holds the polarities together in a grand synthesis , Aristotle ...
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... scene , running terrified around the walls of Troy ; yet , all in all , he deserved his enormous funeral pyre at the end of the Iliad . In the pursuit of areté , every heroic action deserves eternal glory through recollection and ...
... scene , running terrified around the walls of Troy ; yet , all in all , he deserved his enormous funeral pyre at the end of the Iliad . In the pursuit of areté , every heroic action deserves eternal glory through recollection and ...
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... scene where Hector , leaving for battle , frightens Astyanax with his Bronze Age armor and his plumed helmet , Homer sums up a great deal about the actuality of war : In the same breath , shining Hector reached down for his son — but ...
... scene where Hector , leaving for battle , frightens Astyanax with his Bronze Age armor and his plumed helmet , Homer sums up a great deal about the actuality of war : In the same breath , shining Hector reached down for his son — but ...
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... scene in the poem , even those from which he is absent . The leader of the Greek armies , who have been fighting unsuccess- fully for nine years on the plain before Troy , is called in most translations King Agamemnon , but he is not an ...
... scene in the poem , even those from which he is absent . The leader of the Greek armies , who have been fighting unsuccess- fully for nine years on the plain before Troy , is called in most translations King Agamemnon , but he is not an ...
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... Shakespeare . Before leaving the Homeric epic I would like to notice just one among the many episodes that make these narratives so powerful . This is that strange scene by the sea in which the insulted Athens : The Heroic Phase 33.
... Shakespeare . Before leaving the Homeric epic I would like to notice just one among the many episodes that make these narratives so powerful . This is that strange scene by the sea in which the insulted Athens : The Heroic Phase 33.
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