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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... culture that proclaims the need for radical change in the structures of society ( repre- sented by , for example , Jeremiah , Martin Luther , and Martin Luther King , Jr. ) ; the academic cul ... FOUR CULTURES OF THE WEST This One 715K - AUE.
... CULTURE THREE Poetry , Rhetoric , and the 127 Common Good CULTURE FOUR Art and Performance 179 EPILOGUE The Book of Our Experience 235 Notes 241 Further Reading 249 9 Acknowledgments Index 255 257 FOUR CULTURES OF THE WEST to oday the text ...
... ( 4 ) the culture of Phidias , Polycletus , Praxiteles , and countless other art- ists , artisans , and architects , the culture of art and performance . The cultures migrated through time and space from the Roman world of early ...
... cultures : What , he asked , has Athens to do with Jerusalem ? 1 That is , what has human culture to do with the transcendent claims of Judaism and Christianity ? Nothing at all , was Tertullian's answer . Others both before and after ...
... four cultures are , I do not call them the four cultures . They are capacious but not all - inclusive . They do not take account of Celtic or Germanic cultures . They take no account of what we today might call business culture , the ...