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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... literature, and finally for art and performance. There is no need to stress how profoundly each of these achieve- ments, including their Roman articulations, interacted with Chris- tianity from the earliest centuries. Paul in his speech ...
... literature, and finally for art and performance. There is no need to stress how profoundly each of these achieve- ments, including their Roman articulations, interacted with Chris- tianity from the earliest centuries. Paul in his speech ...
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... literature and of the modes in which it was interpreted and studied. Recent generations have forgotten, or have never been told, that Plato and Aristotle lost the battle to ed- ucate the youth of the Greco-Roman world. It was won by ...
... literature and of the modes in which it was interpreted and studied. Recent generations have forgotten, or have never been told, that Plato and Aristotle lost the battle to ed- ucate the youth of the Greco-Roman world. It was won by ...
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... 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 against which to understand ...
... 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 against which to understand ...
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... literature. They gave aesthetic pleasure, but even as they did so they acted as gentle and persuasive invitations to look in- ward and to see ourselves and our dilemmas through other eyes. Huck Finn, Jim, Tom, and Aunt Polly reveal ...
... literature. They gave aesthetic pleasure, but even as they did so they acted as gentle and persuasive invitations to look in- ward and to see ourselves and our dilemmas through other eyes. Huck Finn, Jim, Tom, and Aunt Polly reveal ...
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... literature represented by Petrarch , Dante , and Shake- speare were in part shaped , sometimes profoundly , by the classical heritage . This is , then , that " humanistic " culture that at least down to the middle of the last century ...
... literature represented by Petrarch , Dante , and Shake- speare were in part shaped , sometimes profoundly , by the classical heritage . This is , then , that " humanistic " culture that at least down to the middle of the last century ...
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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