Western Civilization and the Academy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Watson, Bradley C. S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative narratives-including multiculturalism, diversity, and sustainability-have come to the fore in the stead of Western civilization. The present volume is designed to explore the roots, extent, and long-term consequences of this educational climate: How and why did undergraduate education turn its back on what was once an important component of its mission? To what extent has such change affected the experience of undergraduates and the ability of colleges to educate citizens of a constitutional republic? What are the likely individual and social outcomes of such a shift in educational priorities? The volume's theme is, and will continue to be, the subject of national scholarly and media attention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498517560
• Artikelnr.: 43978049

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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