Engaging Worlds

Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
Herausgeber: Anderson, Robert D.; Lee, J. Scott; Flynn, Molly Brigid

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Produktbeschreibung

This book asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world's dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world's colleges and universities?The answers offered are drawn from the widest possible spectrum of institutions and disciplines who offer horizon-expanding liberal educations.

Produktdetails

• Association for Core Texts and Courses
• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780761867968
• ISBN-10: 0761867961
• Artikelnr.: 45002244

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Anderson is a longtime faculty member of the Philosophy Department at Saint Anselm College and the co-director of its Integrated Studies in the Great Books Program Molly Brigid Flynn is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the College Honors Program, Assumption College, Worcester MA J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the ACTC Selected Proceedings series editor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, and J.
Scott Lee Part I. A Good Mind Is Hard to Find Fate, Hope, and Clarity
Richard Kamber Wrestling with the God(s) Benjamin W. Westervelt Teaching
Frederick Douglass as a Master Rhetorician Hollis Robbins Teaching Arendt's
Eichmann in Jersualem as an Introduction to Philosophy Joshua A. Shmikler
Using Fiction and Nonfiction by Barbara Kingsolver to Help Students Think
across Disciplines Heather McGovern Part II. When Cultures Meet
Montequieu's Persian Letters and the Uses of Comparativism Henry C. Clark
Ishmael's Initiation into the Revelry of Work Emily Heyne Engaging
Cultures: Is the Melting Pot Still Cooking? Lyndall Nairn The Problem with
Engaging Worlds: E. M. Forster's Suspicion of Culture Tim Mackin Tapestry:
Christian and Classical Mélange in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces and
Perelandra Charles Fisher Part III. Modern, Postmodern, and Future Horizons
Butler among the Mechanists: Fiction and Nonfiction in the Evolution of
Machines (EREWHON as a Core Text) Dorion Sagan Beauty's Contexts: Symposium
Then and Now Mark Walter Descartes's Doubt and the Beginning of the Modern
World Neil G. Robertson Teaching Pascal in Modern and Postmodern Contexts
Christopher Anadale Core Values and a Historicized Reading of Franklin's
Autobiography Vince J. Brewton Part IV. Challenges from Core Texts
Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads and the Principle of Pleasure
Spencer Hall Quantum Feline: The Prescience of Poe's Black Cat J. Scott
Miller "... He winces not": The Souls of Black Folk as a Foundational Core
Text Page Laws A Journey to Self: A Psychological Analysis of Fauset's Plum
Bun: A Novel without a Moral Karen Y. Holmes Silko's Ceremony as a Core
Text: Natural and Unnatural Worlds Jean-Marie Kauth Part V. Political
Worlds and Worldly Politics Socrates and Crito: Anxiety and the Engagement
between the Empirical and Analytic (Ideal) Worlds of Athens Kieran M.
Bonner Economics as a Force of Nature in Aristotle's Politics: An
Antireductionist View Molly Brigid Flynn Humanities Education and the
Hidden Civic Virtue of Doubt Mark Blackell Toqueville and the Problem of
Associational Autonomy Thomas M.J. Bateman Teaching about Evil and Politics
Using Elie Wiesel's Night Tim Meinke Part VI. Moral Images of Humankind
Using Nussbaum to Link Socrates, Tartuffe, and Raise the Red Lantern with
Today's Global Citizen Kathleen A. Kelly Novel Knowledge in Turgenev's
Fathers and Sons James N. Roney How to Illustrate Blind Ambition to a
Business Student: Looking at the World through the Eyes of Dreiser's The
Financier Vincent Rama Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and
the Pathologies of Moral Philosophy Irfan Khawaja