西方文化要略（簡體書）

本書不是“史書”，沒有長篇的敘事，它只是以歷史為線索突出介紹西方文化史中的重要歷史時期、重大事件、重大思想流派和重要人物；重點介紹在每個特定的歷史階段中，西方社會在哲學、宗教、思想、制度、文學、藝術、科技等方面所取得的重大成就；探討西方為什麼能在15世紀后飛速發展，其物質成就中有多少是以它的文化積淀獲取的。 本書從內容到形式力圖做到融知識性、趣味性和可讀性為一體。 在使用本書的過程中，希望讀者能正確地認識、理解和對待西方文化。尤其是對于西方的政治制度和思想輿論要客觀地分析、冷靜地審視。要從文化地域性、多元性角度進行理解。本書可作為高等學校大學英語的選修課教材。本書也適合于具有一定英語水平的西方文化愛好者閱讀。

Chapter One Greek Culture : Origin of Western Clvilization
PART A Greek Culture
1.1.1 General Introduction
1.1.2 Influence of Ancient Greek Culture
PART B Greek Literature
1.2.1 Homers Epics in Early Greece
1.2.2 Mythology in Greece
1.2.3 Drama in Greece
PART C Greek Philosophy
1.3.1 General Introduction
1.3.2 Famous Philusophers
PARTD Greek Art and Science
1.4.1 Art in Greece
1.4.2 Science in Greece
Chapter Two Roman Culture
PART A History
PART B Culture Achievements
Chapter Three Jewish Culture and the Old Testament
PART A Judaism and the Old Testament
PART B The Ancestors and States of Israel
PART C Zionism an Its Cultural Connotation
PART D Cultural Achievements of the Jews
Chapter Four Christian Culture and the New Testament
PART A Historical and Cultural Backgrounds
PART B The New Testament
PART C A Brief History of the Early Church
PART D Beyond the New Testament Period
Chapter Five The Middle Ages
PART A Europe and Its Politics
PART B The Church
PART C The Crusades
PART D Dante and the Divine Comedy
PART E Scholasticism: Aquinas and Anselm
PART F The Establishment of Banking and Universities
Chapter Six Renaissance and Reformation
PART A Renaissance
PART B Uterature and Art
PART C Political and Social Ideology
PART D Science and Technology and Philosophy
PART E The Religious Reformation
Chapter Seven Age of Enlightenment
PART A Enlightenment: the Age of Reason
PART B Revolutionary Era
PART C English Literature
PART D Art
PART E Music
Chapter Eight Passionate Romanticism
PART A Ceneral Introduction
PART B The Origin of the Romantic Ideological Trend
PART C Romantic Philosophy and Social Thought
PART D Romantic Poems of Nature and Humanity in English
PART E Emotion and Freedom in Romantic Music
Chapter Nine The Industrialized Realism
PART A General Introduction
PART B Realism in Literature
PART C Realism in Painting
PART D Realism in Architecture and Sculpture
Chapter Ten Modernism: New Perspective Denying Tradition
PART A Modernist Culture: Surpassing and Innovation
PART B Modernist Ideology and Philoeophy
PART C Modemist Literature
PART D Modernist Achievements
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