Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts (Association for Core Texts and Courses)

Anderson, Robert D. (EDT)/ Flynn, Molly Brigid (EDT)/ Lee, Scott J. (EDT)

University Press of America（2011/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 242 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780761853718
• DDC分類 128

Full Description

In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication —- as an example of who we can be.

Contents

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 The Contemporary Predicament Part 3 We the People: A Noble Experiment Part 4 The Core and the Core of Persons Part 5 The Person in Society Part 6 Reading Texts and Liberal Education