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Published by Yale University Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 0300095643ISBN 13: 9780300095647
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. In Very Good+ condition and Very Good+ dustjacket. A fascinating examination of the history of the Yale Law School and its impact on the development of legal education in the U.S. The essays in this collection trace these notable developments. They originated as a lecture series convened to commemorate the tercentenary of Yale University. A distinguished group of scholars assembled to explore the history of the School from the earliest days down to modern times. This volume preserves the highly readable format of the original lectures, supported with full scholarly citations.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0804711402ISBN 13: 9780804711401
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Kronman, Anthony.
Published by Yale University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0300138644ISBN 13: 9780300138641
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Large type / Large print. Product DescriptionThe question of what living is for--of what one should care about and why--is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for the restoration of life's most important question to an honored place in higher education.The author contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned by college and university teachers. In particular, teachers of the humanities, who once felt a special responsibility to guide their students in exploring the question of what living is for, have lost confidence in their authority to do so. And they have lost sight of the question itself in the blinding fog of political correctness that has dominated their disciplines for the past forty years.Yet Kronman sees a readiness for change--a longing among teachers as well as students to engage questions of ultimate meaning. He urges a revival of the humanities' lost tradition of studying the meaning of life through the careful but critical reading of great works of literary and philosophical imagination. And he offers here the charter document of that revival.Review"Just when we need them most, the humanities have relinquished their role at the heart of liberal education--helping students reflect on what makes life worth living. In this bold and provocative book, Anthony Kronman explains why the humanities have lost their way. With eloquence and passion, he argues that departments of literature, classics, and philosophy can recover their authority and prestige only by reviving their traditional focus on fundamental questions about the meaning of life."--Michael J. Sandel, author of "The Case against Perfection" and "Public Philosophy"-- Michael J. Sandel"In a brilliant, sustained argument that is as forthright, bold, and passionately felt as it is ideologically unclassifiable and original, Anthony Kronman leaps in a bound into the center of America's cultural disputes, not to say cultural wars. Although Kronman's specific area of concern is higher education, his argument will reach far beyond campus walls."--Jonathan Schell, author of "The Unconquerable World: Power Nonviolence and the Will of the People""No question that the humanities are in a bad way in education at the present, and this book offers not just an argument that they should be more highly prized, but a carefully reasoned position of what happened, why it did, and what needs and can be done about it."--Alvin Kernan, author of "In Plato's Cave""Kronman unfolds here a sustained argument marked by subtlety, force, nuance, and considerable appeal."--Francis Oakley, President Emeritus, Williams College" In a brilliant, sustained argument that is as forthright, bold, and passionately felt as it is ideologically unclassifiable and original, Anthony Kronman leaps in a bound into the center of America' s cultural disputes, not to say cultural wars. Although Kronman' s specific area of concern is higher education, his argument will reach far beyond campus walls." -- Jonathan Schell, author of "The Unconquerable World: Power Nonviolence and the Will of the People"" No question that the humanities are in a bad way in education at the present, and this book offers not just an argument that they should be more highly prized, but a carefully reasoned position of what happened, why it did, and what needs and can be done about it." -- Alvin Kernan, author of "In Plato' s Cave"
Published by Yale University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0300138644ISBN 13: 9780300138641
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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