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January 09, 2009. The Fantasy World of High Chat: Hutchinsland. Some enjoyably wry reflections on Robert M. Hutchins and the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions by Ed Engberg, Sr. Fellow Emeritus of the Center. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch. The Fantasy World of High Chat: Hutchinsland. The Basic Pro...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: April 2009
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April 03, 2009. The University of Chicago Chronicle announces. That the late Leo Strauss, a political philosopher who is among the University’s most celebrated faculty members, will “teach again” when tapes and transcripts of his courses are digitized and collected on a Web site to be built by the newly founded Leo Strauss Center. 8220;We consider these to be an extraordinary resource for the study of Strauss’ thought, and, more generally, of political philosophy and the intellectual history of the...
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November 14, 2008. Why We Lost the Great Books. Speaking in Charlotte, Notre Dame scholar Ralph McInerny discusses the classics and what went wrong. Jane Shaw, John William Pope Center For Higher Education Policy. November 10, 2008. Why do modern humanities professors hate the Western canon, the so-called Great Books that once defined a liberal arts education? It isn't just relativism (or, in McInerny's words, the idea that it's as important to teach Tarzan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). National G...
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December 04, 2008. The Humanities Move Off Campus. As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere. Victor Davis Hanson City Journal - A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch. Been clicking around recently in:.
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October 06, 2011. Mark Edmundson (he of the famous 1997 Harpers essay. On the Uses of a Liberal Education As Lite Entertainment For Bored College Students. Has a new like-minded piece out: Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here? Oxford American, The Education Issue, Aug. 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Liberal education, "the great books" (the Western canon), contemporary literary fiction, and some philosophy stuff. An idiosyncratic slice of "the humanities.". Collected by ambrose mensch.
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: July 2008
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July 30, 2008. The Burden of the Humanities. By Wilfred M. McClay. What does it mean to speak of the "burden" of the humanities? Links to this post. July 29, 2008. Racing Odysseus: A College President Becomes a Freshman Again. Links to this post. July 02, 2008. English Faculty Take Great Books, Learning to Three Prisons. Thanks to a recent partnership between Middle Tennessee State University, the Tennessee Department of Correction and the Great Books Foundation. Links to this post. Great Books of the We...
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November 21, 2009. Book TV visited with author and teacher Eva Brann. At her home in Annapolis, Maryland, to talk about her life and work. Ms. Brann, who has been a tutor at St. Johns College since 1957, discussed her interest in the classics and talked about some of the philosophers her students read. (Original air date August 1, 2009). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Collected by ambrose mensch. Book TV visited with author and teacher Eva Brann . Been clicking around recently in:. And but so.(...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: June 2012
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June 27, 2012. The only substantive review. Ive seen of John Barths latest:. Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons. I am biased. Ive spent an inordinate amount of time with John Barths writing over the past two years, having been hired to adapt The Sot-Weed Factor — Barths labyrinthine historical parody set in 18th century Colonial Maryland — into a full length filmic extravagance, consisting of eleven one-hour episodes and one feature. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mortimer J...
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A P O C A L O O P S I S: June 2008
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June 04, 2008. So the seventeen-year-old kid [Alec Niedenthal]. Bookfox via, in turn, The Elegant Variation. Links to this post. June 02, 2008. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower. The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An [anonymous] instructor at a "college of last resort" explains why. June 2008 Atlantic Monthly. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Collected by ambrose mensch. Bookfox today blogs:So the seventeen-year-old kid. The Great Books Foundation.
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June 27, 2012. The only substantive review. Ive seen of John Barths latest:. Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons. I am biased. Ive spent an inordinate amount of time with John Barths writing over the past two years, having been hired to adapt The Sot-Weed Factor — Barths labyrinthine historical parody set in 18th century Colonial Maryland — into a full length filmic extravagance, consisting of eleven one-hour episodes and one feature. Istanbul anadolu yakası - ataşehir escort. Arts and Letters D...
