Smiling through the cultural catastrophe : toward the revival of higher education /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Hart, Jeffrey Peter, 1930-
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.
Description:xii, 271 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4515416
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:0300087047 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The Great Narrative
  • Ch. 1. Athens and Jerusalem
  • Ch. 2. Athens: The Heroic Phase
  • Ch. 3. Moses as Epic Hero
  • Ch. 4. Socrates and Jesus: Internalizing the Heroic
  • Ch. 5. Paul: Universal Synthesis
  • Pt. 2. Explorations
  • Ch. 6. Augustine Chooses Jerusalem
  • Ch. 7. Dante, Rome (Athens), Jerusalem, and Amor
  • Ch. 8. Hamlet's Great Song
  • Ch. 9. The Indispensable Enlightenment: Moliere and Voltaire
  • Ch. 10. Hamlet in St. Petersburg, Faust in Great Neck: Distoyevsky and Scott Fitzgerald. Afterword: Today and Tomorrow.