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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... remains a presence , too . As the achievements just mentioned indicate , the great narrative could be told in terms of art and architecture , and certainly music , perhaps even science and mathematics . But here it will be told in terms ...
... remains a presence , too . As the achievements just mentioned indicate , the great narrative could be told in terms of art and architecture , and certainly music , perhaps even science and mathematics . But here it will be told in terms ...
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... remains a myth . We can see distant attempts to embody a resolution in , perhaps , Charle- magne , Chaucer's Knight , Shakespeare's Henry V , soldiers with aspects of saintliness , but not at the level or intensity that Nietzsche had in ...
... remains a myth . We can see distant attempts to embody a resolution in , perhaps , Charle- magne , Chaucer's Knight , Shakespeare's Henry V , soldiers with aspects of saintliness , but not at the level or intensity that Nietzsche had in ...
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... remains a matter of scholarly dispute , but he lived on a hinge of history that led to a leap in conscious- ness . With a Semitic script new to Aegean culture , he or someone else wrote down his bardic stories and allowed the legendary ...
... remains a matter of scholarly dispute , but he lived on a hinge of history that led to a leap in conscious- ness . With a Semitic script new to Aegean culture , he or someone else wrote down his bardic stories and allowed the legendary ...
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... remains the colossal figure of Michelangelo's famous statue , the great epic hero of Jerusalem in its heroic phase . So far as chronology is concerned , we could start the narrative of West- ern civilization either with Homer's epics or ...
... remains the colossal figure of Michelangelo's famous statue , the great epic hero of Jerusalem in its heroic phase . So far as chronology is concerned , we could start the narrative of West- ern civilization either with Homer's epics or ...
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... remains fundamentally one and the same . ” Thus , as I have said , ultimately the Homeric striving for areté became a cognitive pursuit in Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , an internalization of epic heroism in the form of heroic ...
... remains fundamentally one and the same . ” Thus , as I have said , ultimately the Homeric striving for areté became a cognitive pursuit in Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , an internalization of epic heroism in the form of heroic ...
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Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
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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