Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts
Whether you skipped college or need a refresher or supplement to what you learned, humanities professor Joseph Manca shows how a college-level liberal arts education can be essentially free and accessible in ‘Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts’. Professor Manca provides listings and commentaries to help you study and enjoy high-quality texts, works of art, films, and classical music. The book lays out a curriculum that, like college, one can follow over four years, or at your own pace. The chapters are arranged—not along the lines of traditional academic departments—but more like life itself, with categories such as love and desire, utopia and dystopia, and our relationship to the natural world. This is not a traditional Canon, but is instead a lively listing of stimulating fiction, nonfiction, and important artworks and music.
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Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts
Whether you skipped college or need a refresher or supplement to what you learned, humanities professor Joseph Manca shows how a college-level liberal arts education can be essentially free and accessible in ‘Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts’. Professor Manca provides listings and commentaries to help you study and enjoy high-quality texts, works of art, films, and classical music. The book lays out a curriculum that, like college, one can follow over four years, or at your own pace. The chapters are arranged—not along the lines of traditional academic departments—but more like life itself, with categories such as love and desire, utopia and dystopia, and our relationship to the natural world. This is not a traditional Canon, but is instead a lively listing of stimulating fiction, nonfiction, and important artworks and music.
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Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts

Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts

by Joseph Manca
Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts
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Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts

Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts

by Joseph Manca

Overview

Whether you skipped college or need a refresher or supplement to what you learned, humanities professor Joseph Manca shows how a college-level liberal arts education can be essentially free and accessible in ‘Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts’. Professor Manca provides listings and commentaries to help you study and enjoy high-quality texts, works of art, films, and classical music. The book lays out a curriculum that, like college, one can follow over four years, or at your own pace. The chapters are arranged—not along the lines of traditional academic departments—but more like life itself, with categories such as love and desire, utopia and dystopia, and our relationship to the natural world. This is not a traditional Canon, but is instead a lively listing of stimulating fiction, nonfiction, and important artworks and music.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839787768
Publisher: The Conrad Press
Publication date: 02/08/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Joseph Manca is a Professor of Art History and the Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History in the School of Humanities of Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, and for decades has taught core humanities courses and art history classes.
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