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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... reflection by these traumatic negations . He had felt thrust out- side history , a “ naked worm , ” as he put it , meaningless , wandering on the moon . In consequence , he had thought long and deeply about edu- cation , his masters ...
... reflection by these traumatic negations . He had felt thrust out- side history , a “ naked worm , ” as he put it , meaningless , wandering on the moon . In consequence , he had thought long and deeply about edu- cation , his masters ...
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... reflecting upon these matters in his essay " Numbers ; or , The Majority and the Rem- nant , " hoped for a " saving remnant , " those who would be the educated bearers of the central ideas of their civilization . Some thoughtful educa ...
... reflecting upon these matters in his essay " Numbers ; or , The Majority and the Rem- nant , " hoped for a " saving remnant , " those who would be the educated bearers of the central ideas of their civilization . Some thoughtful educa ...
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... reflecting , as Robert Penn Warren once put it , the world's tangled and hieroglyphic beauty . Over many centuries Western civilization has answered this question not either - or but both - and , both Athens and Jerusalem . The ...
... reflecting , as Robert Penn Warren once put it , the world's tangled and hieroglyphic beauty . Over many centuries Western civilization has answered this question not either - or but both - and , both Athens and Jerusalem . The ...
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... moments . ” As we will see later on , the strong and competing claims of Athens and Jerusalem may be cen- tral to the conflicts within the mind of the troubled prince . Let us begin by reflecting for a moment on the 4 THE GREAT NARRATIVE.
... moments . ” As we will see later on , the strong and competing claims of Athens and Jerusalem may be cen- tral to the conflicts within the mind of the troubled prince . Let us begin by reflecting for a moment on the 4 THE GREAT NARRATIVE.
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Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart. Let us begin by reflecting for a moment on the " Athens ” part of the dialectic . It can hardly be a matter of dispute that both science and philosophy have developed in the West with ...
Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart. Let us begin by reflecting for a moment on the " Athens ” part of the dialectic . It can hardly be a matter of dispute that both science and philosophy have developed in the West with ...
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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