Engaging Worlds : Core Texts and Cultural Contexts. Selected Proceedings from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses.

Engaging Worlds -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Good Mind Is Hard to Find -- Fate, Hope, and Clarity -- Wrestling with the God(s) -- Teaching Frederick Douglass as a Master Rhetorician -- Teaching Arendt's Eichmann in Jersualem as an Introduction to Philosophy -- Using Fiction and Nonfiction by Barbara Kingsolver to Help Students Think across Disciplines -- Part II. When Cultures Meet -- Montequieu's Persian Letters and the Uses of Comparativism -- Ishmael's Initiation into the Revelry of Work -- Engaging Cultures: Is the Melting Pot Still Cooking? -- The Problem with Engaging Worlds: E. M. Forster's Suspicion of Culture -- Tapestry: Christian and Classical Mélange in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces and Perelandra -- Part III. Modern, Postmodern, and Future Horizons -- Butler among the Mechanists: Fiction and Nonfiction in the Evolution of Machines (EREWHON as a Core Text) -- Beauty's Contexts: Symposium Then and Now -- Descartes's Doubt and the Beginning of the Modern World -- Teaching Pascal in Modern and Postmodern Contexts -- Core Values and a Historicized Reading of Franklin's Autobiography -- Part IV. Challenges from Core Texts -- Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads and the Principle of Pleasure -- Quantum Feline: The Prescience of Poe's Black Cat -- "… He winces not": The Souls of Black Folk as a Foundational Core Text -- A Journey to Self: A Psychological Analysis of Fauset's Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral -- Silko's Ceremony as a Core Text: Natural and Unnatural Worlds -- Part V. Political Worlds and Worldly Politics -- Socrates and Crito: Anxiety and the Engagement between the Empirical and Analytic (Ideal) Worlds of Athens -- Economics as a Force of Nature in Aristotle's Politics: An Antireductionist View -- Humanities Education and the Hidden Civic Virtue of Doubt.

Toqueville and the Problem of Associational Autonomy -- Teaching about Evil and Politics Using Elie Wiesel's Night -- Part VI. Moral Images of Humankind -- Using Nussbaum to Link Socrates, Tartuffe, and Raise the Red Lantern with Today's Global Citizen -- Novel Knowledge in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons -- How to Illustrate Blind Ambition to a Business Student: Looking at the World through the Eyes of Dreiser's The Financier -- Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and the Pathologies of Moral Philosophy.

This book asks what do we learn of texts, cultures, and the world's dynamics when we read core texts, widely and deeply, in core-structured programs of the world's colleges and universities?The answers offered are drawn from the widest possible spectrum of institutions and disciplines who offer horizon-expanding liberal educations.

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