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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... 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.
... 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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... produced ivory-tower intellectuals, not the men of action that society needed, not men given to a life of service for the public good. The kind of learning that Aristotle later represented, especially in his “natural philosophy,” was ...
... produced ivory-tower intellectuals, not the men of action that society needed, not men given to a life of service for the public good. The kind of learning that Aristotle later represented, especially in his “natural philosophy,” was ...
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... produced the landmark United Nations ' Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Human issues dealt with in a human ... produce the great literature that is constitutive of culture three, yet it was a crucial part of the 18 INTRODUCTION.
... produced the landmark United Nations ' Universal Declaration of Human Rights . Human issues dealt with in a human ... produce the great literature that is constitutive of culture three, yet it was a crucial part of the 18 INTRODUCTION.
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... produced windbags, just as culture two pro- duced nerds. It also produced Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. It produced Winston Churchill, whose eloquence “marshaled the English language and sent it into battle.” Its greatest religious or ...
... produced windbags, just as culture two pro- duced nerds. It also produced Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. It produced Winston Churchill, whose eloquence “marshaled the English language and sent it into battle.” Its greatest religious or ...
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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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