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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... matter what form the proclamation takes , the message de- mands conversion , reform , and utter commitment . Paul struck to the ground on his way to Damascus provides the paradigm for the altogether radical and sometimes instantaneous ...
... matter what their initial debt to Islamic institutions , became characteristic of the West in the complexity and sophisti- cation of their organization and in the intellectual dynamism con- stitutive of their style . For culture two the ...
... matter of culture three . Teachers of that matter must now be trained and certified in culture two . Over time the univer- sity has appropriated the stuff of culture three , transforming it into another set of academic disciplines ...
... matter rest at that . I notice that C. P. Snow in his book on " two cultures " never really defined what he meant by culture , and he got away with it . ( Well , he did not altogether get away with it once the critics went to work ...
... matter how otherworldly prophets might hope to be , they must live in the time and place of this world . Even the Amish and cloistered nuns reveal in their clothing and other ways the situation of their founding . When the prophetic ...