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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.
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.
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.
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
University Of Washington Chapbooks, No. 4.
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
University Of Washington Chapbooks, No. 4.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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.
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