西方文化要略

　　本书不是“史书”，没有长篇的叙事，它只是以历史为线索突出介绍西方文化史中的重要历史时期、重大事件、重大思想流派和重要人物；重点介绍在每个特定的历史阶段中，西方社会在哲学、宗教、思想、制度、文学、艺术、科技等方面所取得的重大成就；探讨西方为什么能在15世纪后飞速发展，其物质成就中有多少是以它的文化积淀获取的。 本书从内容到形式力图做到融知识性、趣味性和可读性为一体。 在使用本书的过程中，希望读者能正确地认识、理解和对待西方文化。尤其是对于西方的政治制度和思想舆论要客观地分析、冷静地审视。要从文化地域性、多元性角度进行理解。本书可作为高等学校大学英语的选修课教材。本书也适合于具有一定英语水平的西方文化爱好者阅读。

暂缺《西方文化要略》作者简介

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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