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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... century. In my book on the Sistine ser- mons I had to deal directly with the relationship between “the new learning” of humanism and its medieval antecedent (and some- times enemy), Scholasticism. That relationship was in fact what my ...
... century. In my book on the Sistine ser- mons I had to deal directly with the relationship between “the new learning” of humanism and its medieval antecedent (and some- times enemy), Scholasticism. That relationship was in fact what my ...
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... centuries, through a series of eureka- experiences, what we call renaissances and reformations, they achieved a new ... century, when the cultures, by confronting and doing battle with one another under the cover of Athens and Jerusalem 3.
... centuries, through a series of eureka- experiences, what we call renaissances and reformations, they achieved a new ... century, when the cultures, by confronting and doing battle with one another under the cover of Athens and Jerusalem 3.
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... century that I know best, and it is the century that lies at the center of this book. I will swiftly move closer to the present without trying to do more than make a few observations about how the cultures, greatly modified of course ...
... century that I know best, and it is the century that lies at the center of this book. I will swiftly move closer to the present without trying to do more than make a few observations about how the cultures, greatly modified of course ...
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... centuries provided much of the content of 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 ...
... centuries provided much of the content of 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 ...
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... new climax in the twelfth century with St. Bernard and his Cistercian colleagues, just as the sister/rival culture of the universities was beginning to assert itself. This was the culture serenely in possession in the 14 introduction.
... new climax in the twelfth century with St. Bernard and his Cistercian colleagues, just as the sister/rival culture of the universities was beginning to assert itself. This was the culture serenely in possession in the 14 introduction.
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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