Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses Herausgeber: Dagger, Richard; Lee, J. Scott; Metress, Christopher
Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture in Liberal Arts Education for the Future. Selected Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses Herausgeber: Dagger, Richard; Lee, J. Scott; Metress, Christopher
This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.
This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.
Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. In addition to numerous articles in political and legal philosophy, he is coauthor of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal and author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism and of the forthcoming Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment. Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University, where teaches courses in literature, history, and the western intellectual tradition. His essays have appeared such journals as the Southern Review, Studies in the Novel, and the African American Review, and he serves on the editorial board of English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. He has published three books, most recently Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (co-edited with Harriet Pollack). J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Series editor of ACTC Proceedings
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Introduction Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott Lee Plenary Addresses Whither Philosophy? Richard Kamber The Cunning of Tradition Wilfred M. McClay Of the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education Grant D. Venerable Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist Steven Turley Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts Molly Brigid Flynn Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books James J. Donovan Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts Benjamin Smith Thinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education Storm Bailey The Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education David Dolence An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider Bryan Johnson Memory and the Classical Heritage Homer and the Duty of Remembrance Karl Schudt Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism Andrew Terjesen "Literaturizing" Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius' Satyricon Michael J. Mordine Hobbes's Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought Laurie M. Johnson Bagby "But I Did Not Love Only Him": Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Steven Epley Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity The Originality of Pico's Oration Neil G. Robertson Death and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament James Roney Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere's Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny
Introduction Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott Lee Plenary Addresses Whither Philosophy? Richard Kamber The Cunning of Tradition Wilfred M. McClay Of the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education Grant D. Venerable Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist Steven Turley Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts Molly Brigid Flynn Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books James J. Donovan Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts Benjamin Smith Thinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education Storm Bailey The Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education David Dolence An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider Bryan Johnson Memory and the Classical Heritage Homer and the Duty of Remembrance Karl Schudt Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism Andrew Terjesen "Literaturizing" Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius' Satyricon Michael J. Mordine Hobbes's Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought Laurie M. Johnson Bagby "But I Did Not Love Only Him": Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Steven Epley Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity The Originality of Pico's Oration Neil G. Robertson Death and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament James Roney Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere's Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny
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