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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... literary culture persisted in eclectic and sometimes frag- mented form into the Middle Ages, reaching a new climax in the twelfth century with St. Bernard and his Cistercian colleagues, just as the sister/rival culture of the ...
... literary culture persisted in eclectic and sometimes frag- mented form into the Middle Ages, reaching a new climax in the twelfth century with St. Bernard and his Cistercian colleagues, just as the sister/rival culture of the ...
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... literary genres and made literature the center of the curriculum. That reinstatement is the original reason for calling the period Renaissance. The Renaissance was the eureka-moment for culture three, as it now had a powerful foil ...
... literary genres and made literature the center of the curriculum. That reinstatement is the original reason for calling the period Renaissance. The Renaissance was the eureka-moment for culture three, as it now had a powerful foil ...
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... literary figures in the West , at least in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , were direct expressions of traditions traceable back to classical antiquity . Yet even for Petrarch , “ the father of humanism , ” the dependency is clearest ...
... literary figures in the West , at least in the Middle Ages and Renaissance , were direct expressions of traditions traceable back to classical antiquity . Yet even for Petrarch , “ the father of humanism , ” the dependency is clearest ...
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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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