Four Cultures of the WestThe workings of Western intelligence in our day--whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church--are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four "cultures" so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religion, education, and the arts, this timely book provides a broad framework for addressing these questions in a fresh way. |
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... Middle Ages . Between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries , through a series of eureka- experiences , what we call renaissances and reformations , they achieved a new coherence and a new force that propelled them into the modern ...
... Middle Ages , after which he dominated the history of the sciences and other academic disci- plines for centuries . More pertinent for us , the relationship of Ath- ens to Jerusalem took on its medieval formulation as the relation- ship ...
... Middle Ages in Latin translation half of Aristotle's works on logic , which were studied and appropriated long before the rest of the corpus became available . These works in particular grounded academic culture in its fundamental ...
... Middle Ages , reaching a new climax in the twelfth century with St. Bernard and his Cistercian colleagues , just as the sister / rival culture of the universities was beginning to assert itself . This was the culture serenely in ...
... Middle Ages and Renaissance , were direct expressions of traditions traceable back to classical antiquity . Yet even for Petrarch , " the father of humanism , " the dependency is clearest only for his Latin works , which nobody reads ...