Smiling through the cultural catastrophe [electronic resource] : toward the revival of higher education / Jeffrey Hart.

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.