Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 271 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
030013052X
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0300087047
,
1281730661
,
9780300130522
,
9780300087048
,
9781281730664
Content:
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
Content:
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, andAmor -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hart, Jeffrey Peter, 1930- Smiling through the cultural catastrophe New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001
Language:
English
URL:
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