This is an essential volume for all those who seek to address the nature of Western civilization and its enduring significance in American education, especially higher education. There are no other single volume works that incorporate the same range of discussion on this topic by leading scholars.
This is an essential volume for all those who seek to address the nature of Western civilization and its enduring significance in American education, especially higher education. There are no other single volume works that incorporate the same range of discussion on this topic by leading scholars.
Bradley C. S. Watson is Philip M. McKenna professor of politics and co-director of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College.
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Acknowledgments Introduction:Reclaiming the Vanishing West Bradley C. S. Watson Part I: The Western Achievement Abounding Anomalies: On the Fragility of the Western AchievementSteven H. Balch The Rise of the Universities and the Revolution of the Middle Ages Toby Huff One Civilization Among Many? Academic Reflections on the West and the RestDaniel P. Mahoney Part II: Western Civilization and Liberal Learning Life Under Compulsion: Rejecting the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God Anthony Esolen Learning to Be Free: The Connection between Liberal and Civic EducationPatrick J. Deneen Can Virtue be Taught? Western Civilization and Moral FormationRobert C. Koons Part III: The Western Canon Classics and Not Hog-Wash Anthony O'Hear Democracy's Hope: Fanny Price in Jane Austen's MansfieldPark Norma Thompson About the Contributors About the Editor
Acknowledgments Introduction:Reclaiming the Vanishing West Bradley C. S. Watson Part I: The Western Achievement Abounding Anomalies: On the Fragility of the Western AchievementSteven H. Balch The Rise of the Universities and the Revolution of the Middle Ages Toby Huff One Civilization Among Many? Academic Reflections on the West and the RestDaniel P. Mahoney Part II: Western Civilization and Liberal Learning Life Under Compulsion: Rejecting the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God Anthony Esolen Learning to Be Free: The Connection between Liberal and Civic EducationPatrick J. Deneen Can Virtue be Taught? Western Civilization and Moral FormationRobert C. Koons Part III: The Western Canon Classics and Not Hog-Wash Anthony O'Hear Democracy's Hope: Fanny Price in Jane Austen's MansfieldPark Norma Thompson About the Contributors About the Editor
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