Four Cultures of the WestHarvard University Press, 2009 M06 30 - 272 pages The workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way. |
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... academic/professional culture The culture of Plato and Aristotle, the culture of a certain style of learning, is the aspect of Athens with which many people today are familiar, at least on a superficial level. No historical survey in al ...
... academic/professional culture The culture of Plato and Aristotle, the culture of a certain style of learning, is the aspect of Athens with which many people today are familiar, at least on a superficial level. No historical survey in al ...
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... academic disci- plines for centuries. More pertinent for us, the relationship of Ath- ens to Jerusalem took on its medieval formulation as the relation- ship between “reason and revelation,” which was nothing other than an abstract ...
... academic disci- plines for centuries. More pertinent for us, the relationship of Ath- ens to Jerusalem took on its medieval formulation as the relation- ship between “reason and revelation,” which was nothing other than an abstract ...
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... academic culture in its fundamental characteristic and great glory: reliance on solid evidence and close reasoning. If the style of discourse of the prophetic culture is the shout, the proclamation, the lament, the command, the bark ...
... academic culture in its fundamental characteristic and great glory: reliance on solid evidence and close reasoning. If the style of discourse of the prophetic culture is the shout, the proclamation, the lament, the command, the bark ...
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... academic discourse. But the culture the medieval Scholastics created out of them has only become more normative. This has of course not been a straight-line development since the thirteenth century. In the late nineteenth and twentieth ...
... academic discourse. But the culture the medieval Scholastics created out of them has only become more normative. This has of course not been a straight-line development since the thirteenth century. In the late nineteenth and twentieth ...
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... academic culture, which I call culture two. The story of culture two might be called the triumph of the philosophers (“sci- entists”), and it is how we tend to read Western intellectual his- tory—Descartes, Galileo, Kant, Freud ...
... academic culture, which I call culture two. The story of culture two might be called the triumph of the philosophers (“sci- entists”), and it is how we tend to read Western intellectual his- tory—Descartes, Galileo, Kant, Freud ...
Contents
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culture one Prophecy and Reform | 37 |
culture two The Academy and the Professions | 77 |
culture three Poetry Rhetoric and the Common Good | 127 |
culture four Art and Performance | 179 |
epilogue The Book of Our Experience | 235 |
Notes | 241 |
Further Reading | 249 |
Acknowledgments | 255 |
Index | 257 |
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