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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... humanism and its medieval antecedent ( and some- times enemy ) , Scholasticism . That relationship was in fact what my book was all about , as I traced the transformative effect that the introduction of humanist rhetoric had on the mood ...
... humanists of the Renaissance power- fully reinstated when they revived ancient literary genres and made literature the center of the curriculum . That reinstatement is the original reason for calling the period Renaissance . The ...
... humanism , " the dependency is clearest only for his Latin works , which nobody reads today . For Dante , and then for Shakespeare and others , direct dependency is even more tenuous . Nonetheless , the traditions of vernacular ...
... humanists the texts of ancient literature and educational ideals . The artists of the Renaissance re- discovered or at least viewed with new eyes the sculpture and other artifacts of Roman antiquity . They then had to face the onslaught ...
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