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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Levin Yuval
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 191 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
KassLeon
MerrillThomas W <1974-> (Thomas Westneat)
SchulmanAdam
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 and issues that have been of central concern to his scholarship. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Apples of gold in pictures of silver |
| ISBN: | 9786613911780 |
| 1-283-59933-3 | |
| 0-7391-4161-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462546203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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