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Summary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Robert and Clara Schumann.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Dimitri Shostakovich in 8 lectures of 45 minutes each.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Franz Liszt.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Johannes Brahms.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002

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Greenberg, Robert

Summary: Examines the life and works of Gustav Mahler.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001

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Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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Summary: Part 1 includes an introduction to the entire series and to the enduring problems of philosophy. The critical tensions in Western thought are identified and the context is set for the great conversation that follows. This first part of the series is foundational, designed to teach basic facts about the philosophers and traditions covered. Classical Origins examines the origins of philosophy in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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Summary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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Summary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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