Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger (hardcover) 1945

Description: I PRESENT to the public a work of historical research dealing with a subject hitherto unexplored. It treats paideia, the shaping of the Greek character, as a basis for a new study of Hellenism as a whole. Although many scholars have undertaken to describe the development of the state, the society, the literature, and religion, and the philosophy of the Greeks, no one seems to have attempted to explain the interaction between the historical process by which their character was formed and the intellectual process by which they constructed their ideal of human person-ality. I did not, however, take up this subject merely because I happened to observe that it had not yet been approached, but because I believed that a solution to this important historical and intellectual problem would bring a deeper understanding of the unique educational genius which is the secret of the undying influence of Greece on all subsequent ages. The first volume describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during the periods dominated by the heroic and by the civic or political types of personality, that is, during the archaic and the classical epochs. It ends with the collapse of the Athenian empire. The second volume will record the renaissance of the intellect in the age of Plato, its struggle to master culture and the state, and the transformation of Greek civilization into a world-wide empire. I intend later to show how Rome and early Christianity were drawn into the cultural process which started with Greece. The book is meant not only for scholars, but for all who seek to rediscover the approach to Greece during our present struggles to maintain our millennial civilization. It was often difficult, in writing it, to strike a balance between the wish to give a broad general survey and the pressing need to rehandle the complex material of each section of the book with the depth and accuracy...(from intro)

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