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Autore |
Levin Yuval |
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Titolo |
Apples of gold in pictures of silver [[electronic resource] ] : honoring the work of Leon R. Kass / / Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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9786613911780 |
1-283-59933-3 |
0-7391-4161-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KassLeon |
MerrillThomas W <1974-> (Thomas Westneat) |
SchulmanAdam |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Career of Leon Kass; 1: The Homecoming of Penelope; 2: The World through Ben's Bifocals; 3: Medicalizing Childhood; 4: Washington Square; 5: The Silence of the Spartan; 6: Torah Transformed; 7: Leon Kass and the Poets; 8: Toward a Richer Public Bioethics; 9: Philosophic Anthropology in Rousseau and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas; 10: Self-knowledge and Moral Seriousness in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; 11: From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires; 12: Fraternity in Antigone; 13: Children of Skeptics |
14: The God-Seeking Animal15: The Traditional Animal; Courses Taught by Leon R. Kass; Published Writings of Leon R. Kass; Index; About the Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For more than forty years Leon R. Kass has been a prolific and distinguished writer, an outstanding teacher of the humanities, and a wise interpreter of the moral implications of modern science. In Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, fifteen of his colleagues, students, and friends celebrate his life's work with a collection of essays on themes |
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