Four Cultures of the WestHarvard University Press, 2004 M10 15 - 261 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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... century . In my book on the Sistine ser- mons I had to deal directly with the relationship between " the new learning " of humanism and its medieval antecedent ( and some- times enemy ) , Scholasticism . That relationship was in fact ...
... centuries , through a series of eureka- experiences , what we call renaissances and reformations , they achieved a ... century , when the cultures , by confronting and doing battle with one another under the cover of Athens and Jerusalem 3.
... century that I know best , and it is the century that lies at the center of this book . I will swiftly move closer to the present without trying to do more than make a few observations about how the cultures , greatly modified of course ...
... century marked their most vicious confrontation , the fol- lowing century manifested one of their most notable reconcilia- tions . The cultures are rivals . They are also partners . I. PROPHETIC CULTURE Four Cultures What has Athens to ...
... century helped stimulate the creation of the university , and Aristotle's works on logic and dialectics powerfully ... century . In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries , and especially in the past fifty years since World War II ...