Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education / Jeffrey Hart.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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