Memory, Invention, and Delivery (eBook, ePUB)

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
Redaktion: Dagger, Richard; Lee, J. Scott; Metress, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, 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. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and those working in educational or social programs will all benefit from the insights of this volume into historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761867326
• Artikelnr.: 44845106

Autorenporträt

Edited by Richard Dagger; Christopher Metress and J. Scott Lee

Inhaltsangabe

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