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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... understand his civili- zation in the large , its shape and texture , its narrative and its major themes , its important areas of thought , its philosophical and religious controversies , its scientific development , its major works of ...
... understand his civili- zation in the large , its shape and texture , its narrative and its major themes , its important areas of thought , its philosophical and religious controversies , its scientific development , its major works of ...
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... understand them here , and no doubt were so understood even earlier . Tertullian tried to pry Athens and Jerusalem apart . Clement and Origen tried to pull them closer together . In its formative early centuries , Christianity , like ...
... understand them here , and no doubt were so understood even earlier . Tertullian tried to pry Athens and Jerusalem apart . Clement and Origen tried to pull them closer together . In its formative early centuries , Christianity , like ...
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... understand Jerusalem and Athens . ” דיי Strauss insisted repeatedly that though individuals in regard to ulti- mate decisions might choose either Jerusalem or Athens , they at the same time must remain open to the other possibility ...
... understand Jerusalem and Athens . ” דיי Strauss insisted repeatedly that though individuals in regard to ulti- mate decisions might choose either Jerusalem or Athens , they at the same time must remain open to the other possibility ...
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... understanding . The dominant Islamic tradition , in contrast , evolved a tradition of compartmentalized truths . For Islamic thought during its decisive phase , a proposition might be true in science and philosophy but false in religion ...
... understanding . The dominant Islamic tradition , in contrast , evolved a tradition of compartmentalized truths . For Islamic thought during its decisive phase , a proposition might be true in science and philosophy but false in religion ...
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... understanding , and the bards told the old stories again and again . Originally they were transmitted orally , by wandering performers , and were written down only with the discovery of writing , that is , rather recently in the West ...
... understanding , and the bards told the old stories again and again . Originally they were transmitted orally , by wandering performers , and were written down only with the discovery of writing , that is , rather recently in the West ...
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