Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Anderson, Robert D.; Lee, Scott J.; Flynn, Molly Brigid

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication -- as an example of who we can be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761888680
• Artikelnr.: 75138228

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Anderson is an associate professor at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. Molly Brigid Flynn in an assistant professor at Assumption College in Massachusetts. J. Scott Lee is the executive director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and series editor of ACTC's Selected Proceedings.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Contemporary Predicament
Part 3 We the People: A Noble Experiment
Part 4 The Core and the Core of Persons
Part 5 The Person in Society
Part 6 Reading Texts and Liberal Education