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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... Council of Trent . It is the 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 ...
... Council held in 1962-1965 . 4. ARTISTIC CULTURE This is the culture that expresses itself in ritual performance like coronation rites , graduation ceremonies , and Veterans ' Day pa- rades . It is the culture of dance , painting ...
... councils of the church . In the West the contrast between the then and the now forced a much stronger sense of something lost and now found again . As that something was reinstated , it was transformed . Part of the transfor- mation ...
... be fully intel- ligible only in the lion's lair . The theologians at the Council of Trent for the most part talked academic talk , the talk of culture two , and they translated Luther into their own language Athens and Jerusalem 25.
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