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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... society ( repre- sented by , for example , Jeremiah , Martin Luther , and Martin Luther King , Jr. ) ; the academic cul- ture that seeks to understand those structures ( Aristotle , Aquinas , the modern university ) ; the humanistic ...
... society on its head , provides a striking paradigm for the reformer wholly intent upon putting things right , no matter what the cost . Bound like the prophet " to cry aloud and spare not " ( Isa . 58.11 ) , Gregory feared he would fail ...
... society had changed so radically from those days , what he proposed had , in its profoundest implications , never been heard of before . The " Gregorian Reform " that bears his name , that great up- heaval also known as the ...
... societies . These are its cloisters . Through the centuries the universities abandoned the ideas of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers that for centuries provided much of the content of academic discourse . But the culture the ...
... society would once have considered low culture , for they have long offered degrees in business and agriculture . This is academic culture , which I call culture two . The story of culture two might be called the triumph of the ...