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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John OMALLEY. and doing battle with one another under the cover of religious polemics, made even more manifest their ... religion to get into better focus certain aspects of Western history, certain modalities of Western intelligence ...
John OMALLEY. and doing battle with one another under the cover of religious polemics, made even more manifest their ... religion to get into better focus certain aspects of Western history, certain modalities of Western intelligence ...
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... religion is as a force in the world and how we neglect studying it to our own peril . I will , then , talk mostly about religious figures and movements , yet I will do so insofar as they are expressions of the " cultures . ” By that ...
... religion is as a force in the world and how we neglect studying it to our own peril . I will , then , talk mostly about religious figures and movements , yet I will do so insofar as they are expressions of the " cultures . ” By that ...
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... religious figure. I do not find an obvious place among the cultures, for instance, for Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of my own religious order. If you imagine Western civili- zation as a vast ocean, you might imagine the four cultures ...
... religious figure. I do not find an obvious place among the cultures, for instance, for Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of my own religious order. If you imagine Western civili- zation as a vast ocean, you might imagine the four cultures ...
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... religious and secular are comfort- able here. This is the culture of the martyr (and the fanatic). It is the culture, above all, of the reformer decrying injustice and cor- ruption in high places. It wills to transform a corrupt and ...
... religious and secular are comfort- able here. This is the culture of the martyr (and the fanatic). It is the culture, above all, of the reformer decrying injustice and cor- ruption in high places. It wills to transform a corrupt and ...
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... religion. Could this Athens and this Jerusalem at least in certain important aspects be reconciled, even though the former city was this-worldly, the latter other-worldly? Many practitioners in the medieval universities believed ...
... religion. Could this Athens and this Jerusalem at least in certain important aspects be reconciled, even though the former city was this-worldly, the latter other-worldly? Many practitioners in the medieval universities believed ...
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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