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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... voices . All we have of some of them are a few artifacts , including such silent wonders as the cave murals at Altamira , Lascaux , and Avignon . The deeds of Achilles had been sung , but he did not have a tran- scribed voice until more ...
... voices . All we have of some of them are a few artifacts , including such silent wonders as the cave murals at Altamira , Lascaux , and Avignon . The deeds of Achilles had been sung , but he did not have a tran- scribed voice until more ...
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... voice , her words : " Why tears , Achilles ? Rest in my arms and answer from your heart . " And the sea so still It looks like a metal plate.15 In narrative writing , a “ theophany , ” a showing forth of the god , is not easy to manage ...
... voice , her words : " Why tears , Achilles ? Rest in my arms and answer from your heart . " And the sea so still It looks like a metal plate.15 In narrative writing , a “ theophany , ” a showing forth of the god , is not easy to manage ...
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... voice of this God again and again in the Hebrew Bible . In contrast to the gods and goddesses in Homer , this Hebrew God speaks but is not seen directly . He is outside time and space . When he manifests himself it is through such ...
... voice of this God again and again in the Hebrew Bible . In contrast to the gods and goddesses in Homer , this Hebrew God speaks but is not seen directly . He is outside time and space . When he manifests himself it is through such ...
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... voice that an- nounces this ? We can never know . A long tradition exists that this is the voice of Moses himself ; this , historically , is very doubtful . But why this tradition exists is quite understandable . That opening sentence ...
... voice that an- nounces this ? We can never know . A long tradition exists that this is the voice of Moses himself ; this , historically , is very doubtful . But why this tradition exists is quite understandable . That opening sentence ...
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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