Gilbert Highet Livres
Gilbert Highet était un critique et un érudit classique, réputé pour son enseignement des sciences humaines au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis. Son œuvre a exploré en profondeur la culture classique et sa pertinence pour le monde moderne. Highet possédait une capacité unique à transmettre des sujets complexes avec clarté et enthousiasme captivant à un large public.
ManS Unconquerable Mind
- 148pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Explores the power, capabilities, and limitations of the human mind from ancient times.
Paideia - 1: The Ideals of Greek Culture
The Mind of Athens (Archaic Greece)
- 544pages
- 20 heures de lecture
The project of Greek culture in its heroic period was the creation of the perfect state-a goal that seemed within reach in the Athens of the fifth century B.C. But with the fall of Athens that prospect evaporated, and the result, which Werner Jaeger describes in this second volume of his magisterial three-volume study of Hellenism, was the spiritualizing of Greek culture-'the search for the divine centre.' Jaeger traces the growth of this new power in human culture from its early beginnings in the teachings of Socrates, to its natural climax in Plato's Republic.