Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
|
Buy Now
Humanities and Civic Life - Volume 32 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,978
Discovery Miles 39 780
|
|
Humanities and Civic Life - Volume 32 (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Public Life
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
This volume in Religion and Public Life, a series on religion and
public affairs, provides a wide-ranging forum for differing views
on religious and ethical considerations. The contributions address
the decline of social capital-those patterns of behavior which are
conducive to self-governance and the spirit of self-reliance-and
its relation to the demise of the civic-humanist tradition in
American education. The unifying theme, is that classical studies
do not merely result in individual mastery over a particular
technique or body of knowledge, but also link the individual to the
polity and even to the whole of the cosmic order. At the same time,
American republicanism, in its exaltation of the common man from
the Jeffersonian agrarian soldier to the apotheosis of Lincoln
tempers the classical ideal into something less exalted, if more
democratic. The effects on the contemporary state of the liberal
arts curriculum are demonstrated in articles critical of the
market-model university. Two essays explore the historical and
philosophical significance of the discipline of rhetoric, that has
suffered under the hegemony of rationalistic philosophy. A
concluding contribution, invokes Giambattista Vico as an eloquent
defender of the humanities. Humanities and Civic Life includes:
"Rome, Florence, and Philadelphia: Using the History of the
Humanities to Renew Our Civic Life" by Robert E. Proctor; "The Dark
Fields of the Republic: The Persistence of Republican Thought in
American History" by David Brown; "Unleashing the Humanities" by
Robert Weisbuch; "Liberal Arts: Listening to Faculty" by Dennis
O'Brien; "Historical Consciousness in Antiquity" by Paul Gottfried;
"Taking the Measure of Relativism and the Civic Virtue of Rhetoric"
by Gabriel R. Ricci; "The River: A Vichian Dialogue on Humanistic
Education" by Randall E. Auxier.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.