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The liberal arts tradition : a documentary history /

Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, ranging from Plato to Martha Nussbaum, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Association for Core Texts and Courses
Otros Autores: Kimball, Bruce A., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The disputed origins
  • Section 1. Debates in antiquity
  • Section 2. Late antiquity and middle ages : Christian appropriation, codification, and female imagery
  • Section 3. In the modernus university, 1100s-1500
  • Section 4. The humanist and collegiate traditions, 1350-1600
  • Section 5. Humanist, scholastic, and sectarian strains in the colonial college
  • Section 6. Intellectual and social challenges to the college, 1790s-1850s
  • Section 7. Struggle between the university and the college, 1860s-1900s
  • Section 8. Experimentation and search for coherence, 1910s-1930s
  • Section 9. The "Emerging Curricular Blueprint" of the mid-twentieth century
  • Section 10. Approaching the past in the new millennium.