Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education /
Hart, Jeffrey, 1930-2019.
Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education / Jeffrey Hart. - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART ONE: THE GREAT NARRATIVE -- -- Athens and Jerusalem -- Athens : The Heroic Phase -- Moses as Epic Hero -- Socrates and Jesus : Internalizing the Heroic -- Paul : Universal Synthesis -- -- PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS -- -- Augustine Chooses Jerusalem -- Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor -- Hamlet's Great Song -- The Indispensable Enlightenment : Moliere and Voltaire -- Hamlet in St. Petersburg, Faust in Great Neck : Dostoyevsky and Scott Fitzgerald -- AFTERWORD : Today and Tomorrow.
Hart presents a guide to some of the essential literary works of Western civilisation which retain their ability to energise us intellectually, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all who wish to understand the roots of their civilisation and the basis for its achievements.
English.
0300087047 (alk. paper) 9780300087048 (alk. paper) 9780300130522 030013052X 1281730661 9781281730664
22573/ctt114phh JSTOR EE030186-E49B-4B4C-9EE9-F4FD2072645E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Education, Humanistic.
Civilization--Study and teaching.
Éducation humaniste.
Civilisation--Étude et enseignement.
EDUCATION--Aims & Objectives.
Civilization--Study and teaching.
Education, Humanistic.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Letterkunde.
Hoger onderwijs.
Education.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LC1011 / .H365 2001eb
370.11/2
Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education / Jeffrey Hart. - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001. - 1 online resource (xii, 271 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART ONE: THE GREAT NARRATIVE -- -- Athens and Jerusalem -- Athens : The Heroic Phase -- Moses as Epic Hero -- Socrates and Jesus : Internalizing the Heroic -- Paul : Universal Synthesis -- -- PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS -- -- Augustine Chooses Jerusalem -- Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor -- Hamlet's Great Song -- The Indispensable Enlightenment : Moliere and Voltaire -- Hamlet in St. Petersburg, Faust in Great Neck : Dostoyevsky and Scott Fitzgerald -- AFTERWORD : Today and Tomorrow.
Hart presents a guide to some of the essential literary works of Western civilisation which retain their ability to energise us intellectually, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all who wish to understand the roots of their civilisation and the basis for its achievements.
English.
0300087047 (alk. paper) 9780300087048 (alk. paper) 9780300130522 030013052X 1281730661 9781281730664
22573/ctt114phh JSTOR EE030186-E49B-4B4C-9EE9-F4FD2072645E OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Education, Humanistic.
Civilization--Study and teaching.
Éducation humaniste.
Civilisation--Étude et enseignement.
EDUCATION--Aims & Objectives.
Civilization--Study and teaching.
Education, Humanistic.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Letterkunde.
Hoger onderwijs.
Education.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
LC1011 / .H365 2001eb
370.11/2