西方文化导论 复习题

西方文化导论

Cultural terms

1.Mount Olympus

2.Triumvirate

3.Pulitzer

4.Jacob’s Ladder

5.Hesychasm

6.asceticism

7.Immanuel Kant

8.impressionism

9.the Apollonian style and the Dionysian style

10.Lost Generation

11.Oedipus Complex

12.performance art

Questions

1.What do you think of the influence Greek culture has exerted on Western Civilization as a

hole? Give examples.

2.In what sense do you think Roman culture owed its accomplishments to the benefits obtained

from Greek culture? Give examples.

3.Say something about Judaism and The Old Testament.

4.What are the basic differences between Christianity and Judaism?

5.Cite some facts to manifest the cultural achievements of the Byzantine Empire.

6.What are the major features and achievements of the Renaissance? Give examples.

7.Give an account of the settings and general features of the Enlightenment.

8.What do you think of the similarities and dissimilarities between realism and naturalism?

9.Say something about the features and contributions of utilitarianism, utopian socialism and

classical economics.

10.Try to work out the modernists influence on Chinese literature by selecting one or two figures

for illustration.

11.Give a general survey of the intellectual and ideological developments in Europe by focusing

on one or two theoretical schools in the following list: positivism, pragmatism, intuitionalism, psychoanalysis, existentialism, logical atomism, logical positivism and naturalist philosophy.

12.Try to recall how Chinese popular culture came into fashion in the last two or three decades

with the introduction of Western pop music and art.