Uniting the Liberal Arts

Core and Context : Selected Essays for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Core Texts and Courses
Herausgeber: Cowan, Bainard; Lee, Scott

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Produktbeschreibung

Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context is a selection of essays, presented or further developed from the 1999 Association of Core Texts and Courses conference in New Orleans, focusing on a few of the vertices or vortices, where an intensified sense of the interplay between the ways of knowledge may be glimpsed, or a memorable moment in the past when all briefly achieved a greater congruity may be revived for new consideration. These essays fall into an organization according to the major scheme each posits as unifying, or attempting to unify, the liberal arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780761821618
• ISBN-10: 0761821619
• Artikelnr.: 31201353

Autorenporträt

Edited by Bainard Cowan and Scott Lee - Contributions by Stephen Zelnick; Eva Brown; Gregory Marks; Dana Densmore; Lucy Melbourne; Michael Hinz; Robert J. McMahon; Harvey Shulman; James F. Walter; Joan L. Richards; William Franke; Dennis L. Sepper; Virgin

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Practically Educated:
The ACTC Director's Address Chapter 4 On Education: Uniting Students'
Learning Chapter 5 Waiting for Herot to Burn: The Core Vision of Beowulf
Chapter 6 The Rewards of Reading Copernicus Chapter 7 (Re)discovering the
Rationale for a Liberal Arts Core: Narrative of the Life of Frederick
Douglass in Interdisciplinary Context Chapter 8 Knowledge, History, and the
Creation of Human Nature Chapter 9 Teaching Students to Ask Questions About
What They Read Chapter 10 Educating the Educators: Core Curriculum and
Peripheral Faculty Chapter 11 From Wandering to Journeying with Core Texts
in an Honors Curriculum Chapter 12 Acts of Reading: Chapter 13 Euclid
Through Ages of Reason Chapter 14 The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory
of Reading: Introduction to the Inferno as a Humanities Text Chapter 15
Prospero and the Times of Reading Chapter 16 Character and Reading: The
Absent Speaker's Presence Chapter 17 Texts as Gathering Points: Chapter 18
At the Core of the Social Sciences: Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
Chapter 19 Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita in a Traditional Great Books Program
Chapter 20 Confucius in Dialogue with the West and Today's Students Chapter
21 History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to
Intellectual History Chapter 22 What the Classics of Science Can Teach Us:
Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine and
Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? Chapter 23 The Ethical: Chapter 24
Tragedy, History, and Rhetoric in the Core: Sophocles and Thucydides
Chapter 25 Adam Smith's Other Great Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Chapter 26 Questioning "Our Western Tradition" Chapter 27 Core Events as
"Core" Context: The Holocaust as a Test Case Chapter 28 The City: Chapter
29 The Holy City Chapter 30 Dante and the Synthesis of the Medieval City
Chapter 31 Shakespeare's Cities Chapter 32 Unraveling the City: "Bartleby"
and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chapter 33 The City in Toni Morrison's
Paradise