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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... 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 friend- ship , belief in this book , and his encouragement ...
... 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 friend- ship , belief in this book , and his encouragement ...
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... written today or tomor- row , will gather a consensus and be added to the lists . Works forgotten for one reason or ... writing made us consider life " with greater regard . " 10 On the frieze above Butler Library at Columbia are ...
... written today or tomor- row , will gather a consensus and be added to the lists . Works forgotten for one reason or ... writing made us consider life " with greater regard . " 10 On the frieze above Butler Library at Columbia are ...
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... written down, tells us that Homer was the educator of Greece. It was this authoritative standing that moved Plato to try to displace Homer and project a new ideal of nobility for Greece and, beyond Greece, for mankind. Plato fully ab ...
... written down, tells us that Homer was the educator of Greece. It was this authoritative standing that moved Plato to try to displace Homer and project a new ideal of nobility for Greece and, beyond Greece, for mankind. Plato fully ab ...
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... written down only with the discovery of writing , that is , rather recently in the West . The Greeks acquired a written alphabet around 800 b.c. , about five hundred years after the events described by Homer are supposed to have ...
... written down only with the discovery of writing , that is , rather recently in the West . The Greeks acquired a written alphabet around 800 b.c. , about five hundred years after the events described by Homer are supposed to have ...
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