Uniting the Liberal Arts : Core and Context: Selected Essays from the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Practically Educated: The ACTC Director's Address
Chapter 4 On Education: Uniting Students' Learning
Chapter 5 Waiting for Herot to Burn: The Core Vision of Beowulf
Chapter 6 The Rewards of Reading Copernicus
Chapter 7 (Re)discovering the Rationale for a Liberal Arts Core: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in Interdisciplinary Context
Chapter 8 Knowledge, History, and the Creation of Human Nature
Chapter 9 Teaching Students to Ask Questions About What They Read
Chapter 10 Educating the Educators: Core Curriculum and Peripheral Faculty
Chapter 11 From Wandering to Journeying with Core Texts in an Honors Curriculum
Chapter 12 Acts of Reading:
Chapter 13 Euclid Through Ages of Reason
Chapter 14 The Interpretive Journey and the Allegory of Reading: Introduction to the Inferno as a Humanities Text
Chapter 15 Prospero and the Times of Reading
Chapter 16 Character and Reading: The Absent Speaker's Presence
Chapter 17 Texts as Gathering Points:
Chapter 18 At the Core of the Social Sciences: Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
Chapter 19 Teaching the Bhagavad-Gita in a Traditional Great Books Program
Chapter 20 Confucius in Dialogue with the West and Today's Students
Chapter 21 History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History
Chapter 22 What the Classics of Science Can Teach Us: Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine and Erwin Schr¶dinger's What Is Life?
Chapter 23 The Ethical:
Chapter 24 Tragedy, History, and Rhetoric in the Core: Sophocles and Thucydides
Chapter 25 Adam Smith's Other Great Book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Chapter 26 Questioning "Our Western Tradition"
Chapter 27 Core Events as "Core" Context: The Holocaust as a Test Case
Chapter 28 The City:
Chapter 29 The Holy City
Chapter 30 Dante and the Synthesis of the Medieval City
Chapter 31 Shakespeare's Cities
Chapter 32 Unraveling the City: "Bartleby" and the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Chapter 33 The City in Toni Morrison's Paradise