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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... students in his classroom . In 1933 , he experi- enced another extreme negation in the form of the Nazi revolution . Like ... student's mind . He would say , " History must be told . ” He explained in various ways that history is to a ...
... students in his classroom . In 1933 , he experi- enced another extreme negation in the form of the Nazi revolution . Like ... student's mind . He would say , " History must be told . ” He explained in various ways that history is to a ...
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... students . This occlusion has been accompanied by , indeed is part of , an epistemological egalitarianism that assumes one opinion is as good as another , one book or proffered work of “ art ” as good as another , one idea as good as ...
... students . This occlusion has been accompanied by , indeed is part of , an epistemological egalitarianism that assumes one opinion is as good as another , one book or proffered work of “ art ” as good as another , one idea as good as ...
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... students both at Columbia and at Dartmouth who entered the conversation to my great benefit . I must mention as representative of these , and one of the most brilliant , a young man of great promise , Kellner Schwartz , who com- pleted ...
... students both at Columbia and at Dartmouth who entered the conversation to my great benefit . I must mention as representative of these , and one of the most brilliant , a young man of great promise , Kellner Schwartz , who com- pleted ...
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... students appear to be aware of its dynamic significance or its presence in the important books we will be discussing here , beginning with the Iliad and Exodus , fundamental works for Athens and Jerusalem . Indeed , with very few ...
... students appear to be aware of its dynamic significance or its presence in the important books we will be discussing here , beginning with the Iliad and Exodus , fundamental works for Athens and Jerusalem . Indeed , with very few ...
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... students encounter the material we will be dealing with in this book , that is , major works of intellect and art in the Western tradition , they always sense that they are dealing with matters of the first importance . They are ...
... students encounter the material we will be dealing with in this book , that is , major works of intellect and art in the Western tradition , they always sense that they are dealing with matters of the first importance . They are ...
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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