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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... present without trying to do more than make a few observations about how the cultures, greatly modified of course and secularized, have fared particularly in North America. I invite readers to discern, if they feel so disposed, where in ...
... present without trying to do more than make a few observations about how the cultures, greatly modified of course and secularized, have fared particularly in North America. I invite readers to discern, if they feel so disposed, where in ...
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... present , so that for many readers I will be doing little more than recalling them to mind or raising awareness of them by pointing out some of their manifestations . They are not exotic . To my knowledge , however , no one has proposed ...
... present , so that for many readers I will be doing little more than recalling them to mind or raising awareness of them by pointing out some of their manifestations . They are not exotic . To my knowledge , however , no one has proposed ...
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... The university stimu- lated, produced, and provided a home for a style of learning that has persisted into the present and only gained strength and credibility in the past hundred years. That is the style of 12 introduction.
... The university stimu- lated, produced, and provided a home for a style of learning that has persisted into the present and only gained strength and credibility in the past hundred years. That is the style of 12 introduction.
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... present. This literary culture prevailed in the Western world into the twentieth century largely because, as culture two did with the uni- versity, the humanists also created a powerful machine of indoctri- nation and propagation, the ...
... present. This literary culture prevailed in the Western world into the twentieth century largely because, as culture two did with the uni- versity, the humanists also created a powerful machine of indoctri- nation and propagation, the ...
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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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