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How the West Was Won contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cultural horizons and ideals, and including censorship; and on the Christian Middle Ages, when an interesting combination of religion and culture stimulated the monastic and intellectual experiments of Anselm of Canterbury and Peter Abelard. The volume is held together by the method of persistent questioning, in the tradition of the western church father and icon of the self Augustine, to discover what the values are that drive the culture of the West: where do they come from and what is their future? This volume is a Festschrift for Burcht Pranger of the University of Amsterdam.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 422
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
06 April 2010
ISBN: 9789004184961
Format: Hardcover
'This volume forms a fitting tribute to the work of Johannes van Oort and each essay is a carefully crafted celebration of a topic that resonates with the research of the scholar being honoured. The essays will appeal to a variety of different audiences, but all share a richness and depth of scholarship that makes this an outstanding collection.'
Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
The Expository Times, volume 122, nr. 12 september 2011
Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
The Expository Times, volume 122, nr. 12 september 2011
Willemien Otten, Ph.D. (1989), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on western medieval and early Christian theology, including the continuity of (Neo) Platonic themes. Currently she is working on a comparison between Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Ralph Waldo Emerson about the role of nature and the self.
Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981), University of Groningen, is Professor emeritus of the History of Ideas of the University of Groningen. He has published on Anselm of Canterbury, the literary culture and political thought of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court, and on the Christian humanism of the northern Low Countries.
Hent de Vries, Ph.D. (1989), University of Leiden, holds the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and the Director of The Humanities Center. Among his many books are Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (2005) and Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (2002). Most recently, he edited Religion Beyond a Concept (2008).
Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981), University of Groningen, is Professor emeritus of the History of Ideas of the University of Groningen. He has published on Anselm of Canterbury, the literary culture and political thought of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court, and on the Christian humanism of the northern Low Countries.
Hent de Vries, Ph.D. (1989), University of Leiden, holds the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and the Director of The Humanities Center. Among his many books are Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (2005) and Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (2002). Most recently, he edited Religion Beyond a Concept (2008).