Engaging worlds : core 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 / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.112
• Soggetto topico: Education, Humanistic; Curriculum planning - United States
• Persona (resp. second.): AndersonRobert D.; FlynnMolly Brigid; LeeJ. Scott
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Engaging 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? ; The Problem with Engaging Worlds: E. M. Forster's Suspicion of CultureTapestry: Christian and Classical Mélange 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 ; Humanities 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Engaging worlds
• ISBN: 0-7618-6797-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808061603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Association for Core Texts and Courses