A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education. Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of political life. Keeping in mind what can be lost when liberal education is lost, this volume makes the case for recovering what is perennially noble and good in the liberal arts, and why the liberal arts always have a role to play in human flourishing. Each of the authors herein focuses on the connection of three primary themes: human dignity, liberal education, and political society. Intentionally rooted in the hub that joins the three themes, each author seeks to unfold the contemporary significance of that hub. As a whole, the volume explores how the three themes are crucial to each other: how they illuminate each other, how they need each other, and how the loss of one jeopardizes the wellbeing of the others. In individual chapters, the authors engage various relevant aspects of liberal education. As a result, the volume is organized into three parts: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived; Thinkers on Dignity and Education in History; Contemporary Topics in Dignity and Education. As education is increasingly channeled into an ever more narrow focus on technical specialization, and measured against professional success, students themselves face a maelstrom of campus politics and competing political orthodoxies. These are among the issues that tend to militate against the operative liberty of the student to think and to speak as a person. This edited collection is offered as an invitation to think again about the liberal arts in order to recover the meaning of education as the authentic pursuit of the good life or eudemonia.

Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be. This work is unique in its extended focus, in a comparative study spanning a century, on the persistence and centrality in modernist literature of the struggle to understand and articulate the dependence of human meaning on the mystery of transcendent meaning. Hughes shows us that each of these authors is a mystic in his or her way, and that none are tempted by the modern inclination to suppose that meaning originates with human beings. Together, they address one of the most difficult and important challenges of modern literature: how to be a mystic in modernity.

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1924. From the Introduction: The poems in this volume are almost entirely the work of students who were enrolled last year in the verse-writing course offered by the English department under my instruction. Between October 1923 and June 1924 about thirty undergraduates took this course, and more than half of them composed poems which I consider worthy of preservation.

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The author and publisher wish to express their gratitude to the following individuals, companies, and institutions who have made available certain illustrations appearing in this book The Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library, its Curator, George Freedley, and Elizabeth Barrett, for the Frontispiece, the portrait of Edwin Booth, the portrait of Maude Adams, the scene from Desire Under the Elms, and the Boucicault lithograph. The Library of the University of Pennsylvania, and Neda West lake, Rare Book Collection, for The Old South wark Theatre, Philadelphia George Stevens, Managing Editor, J. B. Lippincott Co., for Oldest Known American Playbill, reproduced from Arthur Hornblows A History of the Theatre in America. Little, Brown Co., for The Haymarket Theatre, Boston, 1796, reproduced from Mary Caroline Crawfords The Romance of the American Theatre. The Cooper Union Museum for the Interior of the New Theatre, Philadelphia, 1794. The New-York Historical Society, R. W. G. Vail, Director, for A Society Audience at the Park Theatre, New York, 1822. The Harry T. Peters Estate, New York City, for Wonders of Barnums Museum. Arthur H. Brook and the Yale University Press, for Interior of the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans, circa 1840, reproduced from The American Stage, by Oral Sumner Coad and Edwin Minis, Jr., Vol. 14 in The Pageant of America. William Van Lennep, Curator, Theatre Collection, Harvard Col lege Library, Cambridge, Mass., for the advertisements of Dalys Under the Gaslight. The Museum of the City of New York, and May Davenport Sey mour of the Theatre Collection, for The Florodora Sextet, 1900. The School of Drama, University of Washington, Seattle, for the exterior andinterior views of The Penthouse Theatre. Gratitude is expressed also to Howard Lindsay, Robert Coleman, and Sawyer Falk for their kindness in reading the book in advance of publication and permitting quotation of their reactions to it. Finally, the author wishes to acknowledge his personal indebted ness to his friend and colleague, Robert S. Gray, for critical assistance, and to Mary Corkins for painstaking typing and indexing. Preface IT will surely he apparent to even a casual observer that a book such as this must depend for most of its information on sec ondary sources. The use of primary sources, such as newspapers arid theatre programs, is the appropriate method for historians of limited periods or regions. Fortunately w c have had in this coun try a number of such patient annalists, and to them the present writer expresses his profound gratitude, as well as his apologies for any possible misinterpretation of their findings. Unfortunately, the number of reference books to which the present volume is indebted is too great for detailed acknowledg ment, though the titles are included in the selected bibliography appended to the volume. I must, however, pay tribute here to the monumental work of the late Professor George C. D. Odell, Annals of the Neiv York Stage, which is the most stupendous theatrical record ever compiled by an individual, and which re flects so remarkably its authors combination of scholarly in dustry and affection for the theatre...

1924. From the Introduction: The poems in this volume are almost entirely the work of students who were enrolled last year in the verse-writing course offered by the English department under my instruction. Between October 1923 and June 1924 about thirty undergraduates took this course, and more than half of them composed poems which I consider worthy of preservation.

This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science: 'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2) International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective; (3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence of Voegelin and Alfred Sch++tz; (5) New Testament studies and Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8) Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9) Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.

Transcendence and History is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as 'the decisive problem of philosophy': the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding. The explicit recognition and symbolization of transcendent meaning originally occurred in a few advanced civilizations worldwide during the first millennium. The world's major religious and wisdom traditions are built upon the recognition of transcendent meaning, and our own cultural and linguistic heritage has long since absorbed the postcosmological division of reality into the two dimensions of 'transcendence' and 'immanence.' But the last three centuries in the West have seen a growing resistance to the idea of transcendent meaning; contemporary and 'postmodern' interpretations of the human situation - both popular and intellectual - indicate a widespread eclipse of confidence in the truth of transcendence. In Transcendence and History, Glenn Hughes contributes to the understanding of transcendent meaning and the problems associated with it and assists in the philosophical recovery of the legitimacy of the notion of transcendence. Depending primarily on the treatments of transcendence found in the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan, Hughes explores the historical discovery of transcendent meaning and then examines what it indicates about the structure of history. Hughes's main focus, however, is on clarifying the problem of transcendence in relation to historical existence. Addressing both layreaders and scholars, Hughes applies the insights and analyses of Voegelin and Lonergan to considerable advantage. Transcendence and History will be of particular value to those who have grappled with the notion of transcendence in the study of philosophy, comparative religion, political theory, history, philosophical anthropology, and art or poetry. By examining transcendent meaning as the key factor in the search for ultimate meaning from ancient societies to the present, the book demonstrates how 'the decisive problem of philosophy' both illuminates and presents a vital challenge to contemporary intellectual discourse.

Edited by veteran Czech diplomat and senior religion scholar Glenn Hughes, The Presence of the Past presents new insights from a conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University, in cooperation with the Czech non-profit organization Post Bellum and the Vaclav Havel Library. Its fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse. The distinguished group of philosophers, theologians, political scientists, historians, journalists, and political activists who contributed to this volume share their perspectives on pressing issues in the modern world, at the nexus of politics and philosophy. This book's most central goal is to bring together those who are used to operating in the realm of ideas, in the so-called "ivory tower," and those who work on the ground-sharp observers of human matters, trained to study them from different perspectives and exposed in their daily lives to the practical problems connected with our capacities of memory, individual or collective. The aim of this dialogue and communication is to open a path to a new beginning. A postscript tries to demonstrate that such an encounter is truly possible; that it can even be productive, and make a good deal of sense.

Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu-In Search of Lost Time-is one of the most important and influential novels of the modern era. In recent decades, Proust has enjoyed a new surge of critical attention, as well as a sustained growth in readership-well beyond that of other prose masters of twentieth century modernism such as Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, and Beckett. The MLA Bibliography presently lists over 3,000 citations to scholarly works devoted to Proust's novel, and if one Googles "Proust," the number of hits exceeds 2,000,000. The temporal nature of human existence and consciousness is one of the many themes explored in In Search of Lost Time, and it is this dimension of Proust's work that unifies this collection of essays that grew from a roundtable discussion entitled "The Timelessness of Proust" conducted at the 31st annual meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society. The collection includes the following essays: "In Search of Lost Time: Biographies of Consciousness," Charles R. Embry "Proust, Transcendence, and Metaxic Existence," Glenn Hughes "The Normative Flow of Consciousness and the Self: A Philosophical Meditation on Proust's In Search of Lost Time," Thomas J. McPartland; "Imprisonment and Freedom: Resisting and Embracing the Tension of Existence in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time," Paulette Kidder; "Proust's Luminous Memory and L'Homme Eternel: The Quest for Limitless Meaning," Michael Henry "Unsought Revelations of Eternal Reality in Eliot's Four Quartets and Proust's In Search of Lost Time," Glenn Hughes Persons who are interested not only in the philosophical importance of literary masterworks and in how the philosophical thought of Eric Voegelin may illuminate them, but also in letting Proust serve as a guide in the exploration and understanding of their own lives, will find these essays to be of lasting interest and value.