04487nam 2200577 450 991082161380332120170919014724.00-7618-6732-5(CKB)3710000000587329(EBL)4391156(OCoLC)937392300(MiAaPQ)EBC4391156(EXLCZ)99371000000058732920160222h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierMemory, invention, and delivery 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 Memphis, Tennessee April 17-19, 2009 /edited by Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, J. Scott LeeLanham, Maryland :University Press of America, Inc.,2016.©20161 online resource (191 p.)Association for Core Texts and CoursesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7618-6731-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.Memory, Invention, And Delivery ; Table of Contents ; Introduction; Plenary Addresses; Whither Philosophy?; The Cunning of Tradition; Of the Wings of Atalanta-Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education ; Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist ; Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts; Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts; Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books; Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal ArtsThinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education The Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education; An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider ; Memory and the Classical Heritage; Homer and the Duty of Remembrance; Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism; "Literaturizing" Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius' Satyricon; Hobbes's Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought"But I Did Not Love Only Him": Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity ; The Originality of Pico's Oration; Death and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament; Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere's Don Juan as Free-Thinker; Freedom and Coercion in Locke's Treatment of Religion and Politics; Ambition, Happiness, and Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments; Camus's The Fall: Remembering the "Great Books" in Light of Modernity's FallWork, Leisure, and the Vita Contemplativa-Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture Transmitting and Transforming through Core Texts; Teaching the Reformation through Luther's Galatians; Galileo's Two New Sciences and the Quantification of Motion; Satire as a Means of Transmitting and Transforming Knowledge and Culture; Memory, Invention, and Delivery in Middlemarch; "Recalling now the obscure shapes, the echoes, the sounds and sights after their sorts": Whitman's Poetics of Memory in "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" ; The Burning Deck: Elizabeth Bishop's Modern ParableThis volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.Association for Core Texts and CoursesRhetoricCongressesMemoryCongressesElocutionCongressesRhetoricMemoryElocution808Dagger RichardMetress ChristopherLee J. ScottAnnual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses(15th :2009 :Memphis, Tennessee)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821613803321Memory, invention, and delivery4035421UNINA