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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... sense to take it for what I intend it to be — not a pro- nouncement from on high but a stimulus to discussion and an in- vitation to reflection . It is an essay in the basic sense of that word — an attempt , a sortie . I see the ...
... sense of the word . Le style , c'est I'homme meme . As important as I believe the 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 ...
... senses , one as valid as the other . Dante self - consciously constructed the Commedia to yield a fourfold meaning ... sense of our experience and sparks our moral imagination . Even as " the classics " became in recent centu- ries ...
... sense of his- torical discontinuity , of a serious gap between past and present . Once upon a time something was , then it was not , now it must be brought back . The restorationist impulse generated energy . To this day a sense of ...
... sense of it . A more secular example can be found in the schools . Over the past hundred years the form and methods of culture two have gradually encroached upon the teaching of " the Humanities , " the traditional matter of culture ...