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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
| 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 |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.112 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Humanistic
Curriculum planning - United States |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6797-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798334003321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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
| 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 |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.112 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Humanistic
Curriculum planning - United States |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6797-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808061603321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Memory, 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 Lee
| Memory, 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 Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric
Memory Elocution |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6732-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Arts
Thinking 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 Fall Work, 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 Parable |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798188703321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Memory, 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 Lee
| Memory, 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 Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric
Memory Elocution |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6732-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Arts
Thinking 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 Fall Work, 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 Parable |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821613803321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The quest for excellence : liberal arts, sciences, and core texts / / edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee
| The quest for excellence : liberal arts, sciences, and core texts / / edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Hamilton Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.112 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Humanistic - Philosophy
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6813-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsExcellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson's Idylls of the King ; A Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ; Descartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as Excellence; Faustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for Meaning ; Plato's Apology of Socrates and King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail": Excellence in Civic Engagement ; Core Texts on Excellence and Education ; Ancients
Resisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides' Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceThe Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy; Moderation and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato's Republic; Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato's Symposium; The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato's Phaedrus Teaches about Teaching; Moderns; A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on Education; Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau's Emile; Forced to Be Free? Rousseau's Social Contract Core Rhetoric: Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural AddressesNietzsche's Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1; John Dewey's Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal Education; Expanding the Core in the Name of Excellence; The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes' Exploration of Large Numbers; Space, Time, and Place in Newton's Principia and Aristotle's Physics; Darwin's Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts Perspective; Las Casas's In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798696103321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Hamilton Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The quest for excellence : liberal arts, sciences, and core texts / / edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee
| The quest for excellence : liberal arts, sciences, and core texts / / edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, J. Scott Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Hamilton Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina | 370.112 |
| Collana | Association for Core Texts and Courses |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Humanistic - Philosophy
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives |
| ISBN | 0-7618-6813-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Excellence Redefined: Cicero and the Heroic EthicsExcellence and the Arthurian Ideal in Tennyson's Idylls of the King ; A Claim for the Less Than Excellent Life: Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice ; Descartes and the Great Books: Homelessness as Excellence; Faustian Striving, the Quest for Excellence, and the Search for Meaning ; Plato's Apology of Socrates and King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail": Excellence in Civic Engagement ; Core Texts on Excellence and Education ; Ancients
Resisting the Dissolution of the Body Politic in Euripides' Bacchae: A Corporeal Condition for the Pursuit of ExcellenceThe Divided Soul in Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy; Moderation and the Best Life: The Education of Glaucon in Plato's Republic; Love of Wisdom or Wisdom of Love as a Pursuit of Excellence in Plato's Symposium; The Love of Beauty and the Pursuit of Excellence: What Plato's Phaedrus Teaches about Teaching; Moderns; A Sound Mind in a Sound Body: John Locke on Education; Both Man and Citizen: Introducing Rousseau's Emile; Forced to Be Free? Rousseau's Social Contract Core Rhetoric: Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural AddressesNietzsche's Question: A Reading of Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism #1; John Dewey's Faith in Progress: An Impediment to Liberal Education; Expanding the Core in the Name of Excellence; The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes' Exploration of Large Numbers; Space, Time, and Place in Newton's Principia and Aristotle's Physics; Darwin's Descent of Man and the Study of Science from a Liberal Arts Perspective; Las Casas's In Defense of the Indians: Can a Just War Be Waged against Barbarians? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808811503321 |
| Lanham, Maryland : , : Hamilton Books, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Who are we? [[electronic resource] ] : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee
| Who are we? [[electronic resource] ] : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AndersonRobert D
FlynnMolly Brigid LeeJ. Scott |
| Soggetto topico | Curriculum planning - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-60018-8
9786613912633 0-7618-5372-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Contemporary Predicament; Paideia in a Post-Darwinian World: Reconnecting Education and Biology; The Great ""Civilized"" Conversation: A Case in Point; Who We Were, Are, and Will Be, Seen Through a Darwinian Lens; Georg Simmers ""The Metropolis and Mental Life"": An Anchor for the First-Year Core; The Woman in the Dunes as a Core Text: Abe Kobo's Search for a New Modern Identity; Descartes and the Existentialists: The Continuing Fruitfulness of the Cogito; We the People: A Noble Experiment
Dark Night of Our Souls' Democratic VistasOld Maps, New Worlds: A Case of Culture and Core; Freedom, Democracy, and Empire: Are We Imperial Athens?; Boiling Down the People: Democratic Reform in Aristophanes' The Knights; Tocquevillian Reflections on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement; The Core and the Core of Persons; Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogating Human Nature with Xunzi and Mencius; Aristotle (versus Kant) on Autonomy and Moral Maturity; Two Meditations on the Nature of Self; Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason Othello in Context: Who Are We? Who Do We Think We Are? Who Are They? How Do We Know?Dock - Alles, was dazu mich trieb / Gott! war so gut! ach war so lieb: Pleasure and Obligation in Faust; The Person in Society; Who Are We, Whose Are We? Women as God's Agents of Change in the Hebrew Bible; Who We Are Through Family and Friends; Rethinking Rites-Music Relations in Confucian Tradition; Politics, Principles, and Death in Antigone; Self-Cultivation and the Chinese Epic: Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Themes in Journey to the West; The Morality of Makola in Conrad's An Outpost of Progress H.G. Wells on Being an EngineerWho We Are and the Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum; Reading Texts and Liberal Education; Core Texts, Introspection, and the Recovery of the Renaissance Ideal in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education; Adverbial Play in Plato's Ion; Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato's Recollection; Dante Is from Mars; Art and Revolution in the Images of Francisco Goya; Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462526303321 |
| Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Who are we? [[electronic resource] ] : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee
| Who are we? [[electronic resource] ] : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AndersonRobert D
FlynnMolly Brigid LeeJ. Scott |
| Soggetto topico | Curriculum planning - United States |
| ISBN |
1-283-60018-8
9786613912633 0-7618-5372-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Contemporary Predicament; Paideia in a Post-Darwinian World: Reconnecting Education and Biology; The Great ""Civilized"" Conversation: A Case in Point; Who We Were, Are, and Will Be, Seen Through a Darwinian Lens; Georg Simmers ""The Metropolis and Mental Life"": An Anchor for the First-Year Core; The Woman in the Dunes as a Core Text: Abe Kobo's Search for a New Modern Identity; Descartes and the Existentialists: The Continuing Fruitfulness of the Cogito; We the People: A Noble Experiment
Dark Night of Our Souls' Democratic VistasOld Maps, New Worlds: A Case of Culture and Core; Freedom, Democracy, and Empire: Are We Imperial Athens?; Boiling Down the People: Democratic Reform in Aristophanes' The Knights; Tocquevillian Reflections on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement; The Core and the Core of Persons; Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogating Human Nature with Xunzi and Mencius; Aristotle (versus Kant) on Autonomy and Moral Maturity; Two Meditations on the Nature of Self; Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason Othello in Context: Who Are We? Who Do We Think We Are? Who Are They? How Do We Know?Dock - Alles, was dazu mich trieb / Gott! war so gut! ach war so lieb: Pleasure and Obligation in Faust; The Person in Society; Who Are We, Whose Are We? Women as God's Agents of Change in the Hebrew Bible; Who We Are Through Family and Friends; Rethinking Rites-Music Relations in Confucian Tradition; Politics, Principles, and Death in Antigone; Self-Cultivation and the Chinese Epic: Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Themes in Journey to the West; The Morality of Makola in Conrad's An Outpost of Progress H.G. Wells on Being an EngineerWho We Are and the Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum; Reading Texts and Liberal Education; Core Texts, Introspection, and the Recovery of the Renaissance Ideal in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education; Adverbial Play in Plato's Ion; Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato's Recollection; Dante Is from Mars; Art and Revolution in the Images of Francisco Goya; Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785776003321 |
| Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Who are we? : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee
| Who are we? : old, new, and timeless answers from core texts : selected paper from the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts / / edited by Robert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, J. Scott Lee |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AndersonRobert D
FlynnMolly Brigid LeeJ. Scott |
| Soggetto topico | Curriculum planning - United States |
| ISBN |
1-283-60018-8
9786613912633 0-7618-5372-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Contemporary Predicament; Paideia in a Post-Darwinian World: Reconnecting Education and Biology; The Great ""Civilized"" Conversation: A Case in Point; Who We Were, Are, and Will Be, Seen Through a Darwinian Lens; Georg Simmers ""The Metropolis and Mental Life"": An Anchor for the First-Year Core; The Woman in the Dunes as a Core Text: Abe Kobo's Search for a New Modern Identity; Descartes and the Existentialists: The Continuing Fruitfulness of the Cogito; We the People: A Noble Experiment
Dark Night of Our Souls' Democratic VistasOld Maps, New Worlds: A Case of Culture and Core; Freedom, Democracy, and Empire: Are We Imperial Athens?; Boiling Down the People: Democratic Reform in Aristophanes' The Knights; Tocquevillian Reflections on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement; The Core and the Core of Persons; Good Cop, Bad Cop: Interrogating Human Nature with Xunzi and Mencius; Aristotle (versus Kant) on Autonomy and Moral Maturity; Two Meditations on the Nature of Self; Montaigne and the Limits of Human Reason Othello in Context: Who Are We? Who Do We Think We Are? Who Are They? How Do We Know?Dock - Alles, was dazu mich trieb / Gott! war so gut! ach war so lieb: Pleasure and Obligation in Faust; The Person in Society; Who Are We, Whose Are We? Women as God's Agents of Change in the Hebrew Bible; Who We Are Through Family and Friends; Rethinking Rites-Music Relations in Confucian Tradition; Politics, Principles, and Death in Antigone; Self-Cultivation and the Chinese Epic: Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Themes in Journey to the West; The Morality of Makola in Conrad's An Outpost of Progress H.G. Wells on Being an EngineerWho We Are and the Case for Economics in the Core Curriculum; Reading Texts and Liberal Education; Core Texts, Introspection, and the Recovery of the Renaissance Ideal in Twenty-First-Century Higher Education; Adverbial Play in Plato's Ion; Remembering Ancient Truths: The Four Roots of Plato's Recollection; Dante Is from Mars; Art and Revolution in the Images of Francisco Goya; Incorporating Eastern Texts into a Western Core: Teaching the Tao Te Ching in Conversation with Wallace Stevens |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809577803321 |
| Lanham, : University Press of America, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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