LEADER 03785nam 2200529 450 001 9910808061603321 005 20180613003103.0 010 $a0-7618-6797-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000725501 035 $a(EBL)4547963 035 $a(OCoLC)951624086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4547963 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000725501 100 $a20160629h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEngaging worlds $ecore texts and cultural contexts : selected proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses New Brunswick, New Jersey April 15-18, 2010 /$fedited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cUniversity Press of America, Inc.,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 225 1 $aAssociation for Core Texts and Courses 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7618-6796-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aEngaging Worlds ; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. A Good Mind Is Hard to Find; Fate, Hope, and Clarity; Wrestling with the God(s); Teaching Frederick Douglass as a Master Rhetorician; Teaching Arendt's Eichmann in Jersualem as an Introduction to Philosophy; Using Fiction and Nonfiction by Barbara Kingsolver to Help Students Think across Disciplines; Part II. When Cultures Meet; Montequieu's Persian Letters and the Uses of Comparativism; Ishmael's Initiation into the Revelry of Work; Engaging Cultures: Is the Melting Pot Still Cooking? 327 $aThe Problem with Engaging Worlds: E. M. Forster's Suspicion of CultureTapestry: Christian and Classical Me?lange in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces and Perelandra; Part III. Modern, Postmodern, and Future Horizons; Butler among the Mechanists: Fiction and Nonfiction in the Evolution of Machines (EREWHON as a Core Text); Beauty's Contexts: Symposium Then and Now; Descartes's Doubt and the Beginning of the Modern World; Teaching Pascal in Modern and Postmodern Contexts; Core Values and a Historicized Reading of Franklin's Autobiography ; Part IV. Challenges from Core Texts 327 $aHumanities Education and the Hidden Civic Virtue of DoubtToqueville and the Problem of Associational Autonomy; Teaching about Evil and Politics Using Elie Wiesel's Night ; Part VI. Moral Images of Humankind; Using Nussbaum to Link Socrates, Tartuffe, and Raise the Red Lantern with Today's Global Citizen; Novel Knowledge in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; How to Illustrate Blind Ambition to a Business Student: Looking at the World through the Eyes of Dreiser's The Financier ; Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and the Pathologies of Moral Philosophy 330 $aThis book asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world's dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world's colleges and universities?The answers offered are drawn from the widest possible spectrum of institutions and disciplines who offer horizon-expanding liberal educations. 410 0$aAssociation for Core Texts and Courses 606 $aEducation, Humanistic$vCongresses 606 $aCurriculum planning$zUnited States$vCongresses 615 0$aEducation, Humanistic 615 0$aCurriculum planning 676 $a370.112 702 $aAnderson$b Robert D. 702 $aFlynn$b Molly Brigid 702 $aLee$b J. Scott 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808061603321 996 $aEngaging worlds$94074982 997 $aUNINA