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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... discourse . I mean especially configurations of patterns of discourse and thus expressions of style in the pro- foundest sense of the word . Le style , c'est l'homme même . As important as I believe the four cultures are , I do not call ...
... discourse . I mean especially configurations of patterns of discourse and thus expressions of style in the pro- foundest sense of the word . Le style , c'est l'homme même . As important as I believe the four cultures are , I do not call ...
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... discourse is the imperative: Repent! It finds form in manifestoes. It must sometimes make noise. Carrie Nation, campaigning against the evils of alcohol, described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, Athens and ...
... discourse is the imperative: Repent! It finds form in manifestoes. It must sometimes make noise. Carrie Nation, campaigning against the evils of alcohol, described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, Athens and ...
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... discourse and of reasoning themselves. Boethius transmitted to the Middle Ages in Latin translation half of Aristotle's works on logic, which were studied and appropriated long before the rest of the corpus became available. These works ...
... discourse and of reasoning themselves. Boethius transmitted to the Middle Ages in Latin translation half of Aristotle's works on logic, which were studied and appropriated long before the rest of the corpus became available. These works ...
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... 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 centuries ...
... 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 centuries ...
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... discourse that is more circular than linear. If culture two seeks clear-cut definition, this culture, at least in this particular aspect, glories in ambiguity, in rich layers of meaning. Whatever Blake's “Sick Rose” is about, it is not ...
... discourse that is more circular than linear. If culture two seeks clear-cut definition, this culture, at least in this particular aspect, glories in ambiguity, in rich layers of meaning. Whatever Blake's “Sick Rose” is about, it is not ...
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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