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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... knowledge and mastery in mind . He meant that the citizen , the product of a genuine liberal arts education , should understand his civili- zation in the large , its shape and texture , its narrative and its major themes , its important ...
... knowledge and mastery in mind . He meant that the citizen , the product of a genuine liberal arts education , should understand his civili- zation in the large , its shape and texture , its narrative and its major themes , its important ...
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... knowledge through an investigation of the world . The scriptural tradi- tion bases its view of the world on a series of received insights into the constitution of actuality . The insights are not true because they are recorded in ...
... knowledge through an investigation of the world . The scriptural tradi- tion bases its view of the world on a series of received insights into the constitution of actuality . The insights are not true because they are recorded in ...
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... knowledge in only a few of them and probably will commit errors even about those . A reader reads a strong book , but such books as these also silently read the reader , demanding effort and aspiration , and always issue a silent ...
... knowledge in only a few of them and probably will commit errors even about those . A reader reads a strong book , but such books as these also silently read the reader , demanding effort and aspiration , and always issue a silent ...
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... knowledge . As a mode of knowledge , music was comparable to , for example , geometry— an expression of the underlying order of the cosmos . Eric Voegelin's brief sentences on the death of Plato amount almost to a philosophical poem ...
... knowledge . As a mode of knowledge , music was comparable to , for example , geometry— an expression of the underlying order of the cosmos . Eric Voegelin's brief sentences on the death of Plato amount almost to a philosophical poem ...
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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