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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... my training as a Jesuit, very old-fashioned, had been a self-conscious replay and amalgam of the humanistic and Scholastic traditions as they were embodied in educational programs. I was curious to understand better 2 introduction.
... my training as a Jesuit, very old-fashioned, had been a self-conscious replay and amalgam of the humanistic and Scholastic traditions as they were embodied in educational programs. I was curious to understand better 2 introduction.
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... centuries, and especially in the past fifty years since World War II, the universities have increasingly claimed for themselves the territory of traditional “high culture.” They have even claimed certain fields Athens and Jerusalem 13.
... centuries, and especially in the past fifty years since World War II, the universities have increasingly claimed for themselves the territory of traditional “high culture.” They have even claimed certain fields Athens and Jerusalem 13.
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John OMALLEY. tory of traditional “high culture.” They have even claimed certain fields that society would once have ... tradition based on literature. They had an educa- tion steeped in poetry, drama, history, and rhetoric (oratory) ...
John OMALLEY. tory of traditional “high culture.” They have even claimed certain fields that society would once have ... tradition based on literature. They had an educa- tion steeped in poetry, drama, history, and rhetoric (oratory) ...
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... tradition often tended to a didactic approach to “good letters,” but the better among them saw further that liter- ature reflects the complexities of life and the murky darkness in which our choices must sometimes be made. It is a ...
... tradition often tended to a didactic approach to “good letters,” but the better among them saw further that liter- ature reflects the complexities of life and the murky darkness in which our choices must sometimes be made. It is a ...
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... tradition intellectually and morally responsible. As an educator, he judged the education Plato envisaged as impractical, for it required most of the years of a man's life and also isolated him from the ur- gent concerns of society. It ...
... tradition intellectually and morally responsible. As an educator, he judged the education Plato envisaged as impractical, for it required most of the years of a man's life and also isolated him from the ur- gent concerns of society. It ...
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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