LEADER 03910nam 22006254a 450 001 9910451835803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73066-1 010 $a9786611730666 010 $a0-300-13052-X 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300130522 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471940 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022174735 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000247101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208669 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000247101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208945 035 $a(PQKB)10886084 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167134 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420001 035 $a(DE-B1597)485472 035 $a(OCoLC)1024054410 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300130522 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170027 035 $a(OCoLC)923589451 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471940 100 $a20010212d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSmiling through the cultural catastrophe$b[electronic resource] $etoward the revival of higher education /$fJeffrey Hart 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 271 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-08704-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: PART ONE: THE GREAT NARRATIVE -- CHAPTER ONE Athens andJerusalem 3 -- CHAPTER TWO Athens: The Heroic Phase 14 -- CHAPTER THREE Moses as Epic Hero 35 -- CHAPTERFOUR Socrates andJesus: Internalizing the Heroic 73 -- CHAPTER FIVE Paul: Universal Synthesis 105 -- PART TWO: EXPLORATIONS -- CHAPTER SIX Augustine ChoosesJerusalem 127 -- CHAPTER SEVEN Dante, Rome (Athens),Jerusalem, andAmor 138 -- CHAPTER EIGHT Hamlet's Great Song 169 -- CHAPTER NINE The Indispensable Enlightenment: Moliere and -- Voltaire 187 -- CHAPTER TEN Hamlet in St. Petersburg, Faust in Great Neck: -- Dostoyevsky and Scott Fitzgerald 207 -- AFTERWORD Today and Tomorrow 241 -- Notes 251 -- Index 263. 330 $aAlthough the essential books of Western civilization are no longer central in our courses or in our thoughts, they retain their ability to energize us intellectually, says Jeffrey Hart in this powerful book. He now presents a guide to some of these literary works, tracing the main currents of Western culture for all who wish to understand the roots of their civilization and the basis for its achievements.Hart focuses on the productive tension between the classical and biblical strains in our civilization--between a life based on cognition and one based on faith and piety. He begins with the Iliad and Exodus, linking Achilles and Moses as Bronze Age heroic figures. Closely analyzing texts and illuminating them in unexpected ways, he moves on to Socrates and Jesus, who "internalized the heroic," continues with Paul and Augustine and their Christian synthesis, addresses Dante, Shakespeare (Hamlet), Molière, and Voltaire, and concludes with the novel as represented by Crime and Punishment and The Great Gatsby. Hart maintains that the dialectical tensions suggested by this survey account for the restlessness and singular achievements of the West and that the essential books can provide the substance and energy currently missed by both students and educated readers. 606 $aEducation, Humanistic 606 $aCivilization$xStudy and teaching 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducation, Humanistic. 615 0$aCivilization$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a370.11/2 700 $aHart$b Jeffrey Peter$f1930-$0986326 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451835803321 996 $aSmiling through the cultural catastrophe$92464310 997 $aUNINA