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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... discourse in which Western intelli- gence has manifested itself through the centuries and continues to do so , O'Malley produces an essay that especially through the history of Christianity brilliantly illuminates the larger his- tory ...
... discourse . I mean especially configurations of patterns of discourse and thus expressions of style in the pro- foundest sense of the word . Le style , c'est I'homme meme . As important as I believe the four cultures are , I do not call ...
... discourse is the imperative : Repent ! It finds form in manifestoes . It must sometimes make noise . Carrie Nation , campaigning against the evils of alcohol , described herself as " a bulldog running along at the feet of Athens and ...
... discourse and of reasoning themselves . Boethius transmitted to the Middle Ages in Latin translation half of Aristotle's works on logic , which were studied and appropriated long before the rest of the corpus became available . These ...
... discourse . But the culture the medieval Scholastics created out of them has only become more normative . This has of course not been a straight - line development since the thirteenth century . In the late nineteenth and twentieth ...