Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationYale University Press, 01.10.2008 - 286 Seiten 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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... among many at the freshman or sophomore level . One model for such a course is the fresh- man Humanities I – II course at Columbia College , the seminar ancestor of which was introduced in 1919 by John Erskine , Preface xi.
... among many at the freshman or sophomore level . One model for such a course is the fresh- man Humanities I – II course at Columbia College , the seminar ancestor of which was introduced in 1919 by John Erskine , Preface xi.
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... John Erskine , a professor of English . It begins in the fall with Homer and ends in the spring with a great novel chosen from many possibilities . The title of this book speaks of a " cultural catastrophe , " and , more cheerfully , of ...
... John Erskine , a professor of English . It begins in the fall with Homer and ends in the spring with a great novel chosen from many possibilities . The title of this book speaks of a " cultural catastrophe , " and , more cheerfully , of ...
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... John Keats's lyrical expression , the nightingale's song , the unheard mu- sic of the Urn , and the thin but welcome music of autumn , arose out of contradiction . 1 I make no claim to originality in positing " Athens " and " Jerusalem ...
... John Keats's lyrical expression , the nightingale's song , the unheard mu- sic of the Urn , and the thin but welcome music of autumn , arose out of contradiction . 1 I make no claim to originality in positing " Athens " and " Jerusalem ...
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... John Milton , holding in tension his classicism and his Christianity , both celebrated and mourned this theodicide in his great poem " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ” : In consecrated Earth And on the holy Hearth The Lars and ...
... John Milton , holding in tension his classicism and his Christianity , both celebrated and mourned this theodicide in his great poem " On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ” : In consecrated Earth And on the holy Hearth The Lars and ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Aaron Abraham Achilles Aeneas Agamemnon Alceste ancient areté Aristotle Athens Athens and Jerusalem Augustine beauty beginning Bronze Age Brunetto C. S. Lewis Canto Célimène century certainly chapter Christian civilization cognition Commandment Confessions cosmos course culture Dante Dante's death Divine Comedy Dostoyevsky Egypt Egyptian empire Enlightenment epic everything Exodus experience figure Gatsby Gatsby's Genesis Greek philosophy Hebrew Bible Hector hero heroic holiness Homer Horeb human idea Iliad important Inferno intellectual Israelites Jesus killed King literature live Logos Lord magical mind Molière monotheism monotheistic moral Moses move murder narrative Nick novel Numbers Odysseus passage Paul perhaps Pharaoh pilgrim Dante Plato play poem poet Prince Hamlet Prophets Raskolnikov religious Rendsburg Roman scene seems sense Shakespeare Sinai society Socrates speak spirit student T. S. Eliot tell tension things Thou thought tion tradition Troy truth Ulysses universe Virgil voice Voltaire Western words