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

by Richard Dagger (Editor), Christopher Metress (Editor), J. Scott Lee (Editor)

Overview

In a time when liberal arts education is increasingly under attack, this volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. Future citizens, businesswomen and men, scientists, artists and those working in educational or social programs will all benefit from the insights of this volume into historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761867326
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/04/2016
Series:	Association for Core Texts and Courses
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. In addition to numerous articles in political and legal philosophy, he is coauthor of Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal and author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism and of the forthcoming Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment.

Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University, where teaches courses in literature, history, and the western intellectual tradition. His essays have appeared such journals as the Southern Review, Studies in the Novel, and the African American Review, and he serves on the editorial board of English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. He has published three books, most recently Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (co-edited with Harriet Pollack).

J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Series editor of ACTC Proceedings

Table of Contents

Introduction
Richard Dagger, Christopher Metress, and J. Scott Lee
Plenary Addresses
Whither Philosophy? Richard Kamber
The Cunning of Tradition Wilfred M. McClay
Of the Wings of Atalanta—Meaning and Dualism in DuBois, Morrison, and Historically Black, Liberal Arts Education Grant D. Venerable
Platonic Forms as a Model of Modern Physics: Confessions of an Experimental Physicist Steven Turley
Liberal Education and the Liberal Arts
Liberal Education: Transmitting Knowledge through Texts Molly Brigid Flynn
Why Should Science Majors Waste Their Time on Great Books James J. Donovan
Medieval Political Philosophy, Christianity, and the Liberal Arts Benjamin Smith
Thinking about Thinking about Justice: The Abolition of Man and Reflections on Education Storm Bailey
The Futility of Escaping the Mind: Invisible Man and a Liberal Education David Dolence
An Exemplary Model of Core Text Education: Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a Paradigm Provider Bryan Johnson
Memory and the Classical Heritage
Homer and the Duty of Remembrance Karl Schudt
Justius Lipsius and the Re-Invention of Stoicism Andrew Terjesen
“Literaturizing” Life: Reading and Misreading Honor in Petronius’ Satyricon Michael J. Mordine
Hobbes’s Thucydides and Homer: Translation as Political Thought Laurie M. Johnson Bagby
“But I Did Not Love Only Him”: Helping Students Discern Platonic Values in Sense and Sensibility Steven Epley
Freedom and Happiness from the Renaissance to Modernity
The Originality of Pico’s Oration Neil G. Robertson
Death and Core Tradition in a Polish Renaissance Lament James Roney
Freedom and Its Limits: Moliere’s Don Juan as Free-Thinker Diane Fourny