Hart, Jeffrey Peter, 1930-

Smiling through the cultural catastrophe toward the revival of higher education / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey Hart. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - xii, 271 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine 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.


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Education, Humanistic.
Civilization--Study and teaching.


Electronic books.

LC1011 / .H365 2001eb

370.11/2