Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education
Title:
Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education
Author:
Hart, Jeffrey Peter, 1930-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
©2001
Physical Description:
xii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Athens and Jerusalem -- Athens: the heroic phase -- Moses as epic hero -- Socrates and Jesus: internalizing the heroic -- Paul: universal synthesis -- Augustine chooses Jerusalem -- Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor -- Hamlet's great song -- Indispensable Enlightenment: Molière and Voltaire -- Hamlet in St. Petersburg, Faust in Great Neck: Dostoyevsky and Scott Fitzgerald.
ISBN:
9780300087048
Format :
Book
