Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher EducationYale University Press, 01 հոկ, 2008 թ. - 286 էջ 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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Toward the Revival of Higher Education Jeffrey Hart. also by jeffrey hart Political Writers of Eighteenth-Century England Burke's Speech on Conciliation Viscount Bolingbroke: Tory Humanist The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern ...
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... writing of this book came from Joseph Epstein, Robert Hollander of Princeton, and Jonathan Brent of Yale University Press. I am grateful to Bill Buckley for his decades of friendship, belief in this book, and his encouragement. The sta ...
... writing of this book came from Joseph Epstein, Robert Hollander of Princeton, and Jonathan Brent of Yale University Press. I am grateful to Bill Buckley for his decades of friendship, belief in this book, and his encouragement. The sta ...
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... writers. But they have the power to make us more intelligent for a while, and perhaps better, than we ordinarily would be. In a formulation worth pondering, Robert Frost once remarked that strong writing made us consider life ''with ...
... writers. But they have the power to make us more intelligent for a while, and perhaps better, than we ordinarily would be. In a formulation worth pondering, Robert Frost once remarked that strong writing made us consider life ''with ...
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... writers listed there are ''the first team.'' ''Humanity,'' wrote C. S. Lewis, ''does not pass through phases as a train through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we ...
... writers listed there are ''the first team.'' ''Humanity,'' wrote C. S. Lewis, ''does not pass through phases as a train through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we ...
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