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Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history /
Herman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and his invitations to read or reread, a wide selection of major literary and philosophical works - from ancient Greek to Chinese to moder...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Socrates and Freud: talk and truth
- Plato's Laches: psychotherapy and the search for wisdom
- Reading Homer's Iliad
- Homer's Odyssey: the adolescence of Telemachus
- History, poetry, and philosophy in Tolstoy's War and peace
- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
- Theme, structure, and meaning in Herodotus' history
- Yeats's "among school children": analyzing a lyric poem
- Conrad's Heart of darkness: art and the artist
- Shelley's Frankenstein: reflections on the monster
- The Analects: Confucius' claim to philosophical greatness
- Chinese and English lyric poetry: art and the comparison of cultures.
- Tragedy and psychoanalysis: tragedy in poetry and in life
- Hume's "of the standard of taste": how is the canon determined?
- Plato's Protagoras: who will teach the teachers?
- Energizing the classroom: the structure of teaching
- The value of failure: structure and argument in Republic, book I
- Knowing, being, and the community: the divided line and the cave in Republic, books VI and VII
- The ancient quarrel: Socrates' critique of poetry in Republic, book X
- Dialogue and dialectic: the limitations on human wisdom.