{"product_id":"uniting-the-liberal-arts-9780761821618","title":"Uniting the Liberal Arts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context is a selection of essays, presented or further developed from the 1999 Association of Core Texts and Courses conference in New Orleans, focusing on a few of the vertices or vortices, where an intensified sense of the interplay between the ways of knowledge may be glimpsed, or a memorable moment in the past when all briefly achieved a greater congruity may be revived for new consideration. These essays fall into an organization according to the major scheme each posits as unifying, or attempting to unify, the liberal arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Practically Educated: The ACTC Director's Address Chapter 4 On Education: Uniting Students' Learning Chapter 5 Waiting for Herot to Burn: The Core Vision of Beowulf Chapter 6 The Rewards of Reading Copernicus Chapter 7 (Re)discovering the Rationale for a Liberal Arts Core: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Interdisciplinary Context Chapter 8 Knowledge, History, and the Creation of Human Nature Chapter 9 Teaching Students to Ask Questions About What They Read Chapter 10 Educating the Educators: Core Curriculum and Peripheral Faculty Chapter 11 From Wandering to Journeying with Core Texts in an Honors Curriculum Chapter 12 Acts of Reading: Chapter 13 Euclid Through Ages of Reason Chapter 14 The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading: Introduction to the Inferno as a Humanities Text Chapter 15 Prospero and the Times of Reading Chapter 16 Character and Reading: The Absent Speaker's Presence Chapter 17 Texts as Gathering Points: Chapter 18 At the Core of the Social Sciences: Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws Chapter 19 Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita in a Traditional Great Books Program Chapter 20 Confucius in Dialogue with the West and Today's Students Chapter 21 History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History Chapter 22 What the Classics of Science Can Teach Us: Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine and Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? Chapter 23 The Ethical: Chapter 24 Tragedy, History, and Rhetoric in the Core: Sophocles and Thucydides Chapter 25 Adam Smith's Other Great Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments Chapter 26 Questioning \"Our Western Tradition\" Chapter 27 Core Events as \"Core\" Context: The Holocaust as a Test Case Chapter 28 The City: Chapter 29 The Holy City Chapter 30 Dante and the Synthesis of the Medieval City Chapter 31 Shakespeare's Cities Chapter 32 Unraveling the City: \"Bartleby\" and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Chapter 33 The City in Toni Morrison's Paradise","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037766418775,"sku":"9780761821618","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780761821618.jpg?v=1750937209","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uniting-the-liberal-arts-9780761821618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}