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While it often seems that the various disciplinary fiefdoms within liberal arts education seem to dismiss the importance of any of the competing disciplines, the editors of this volume of 26 essays assert that the use of core texts and core curricula can lead to a unity of the disciplines in the thinking of the liberal arts student. Organized along the lines of five particular claims, the papers collectively assert that the act of reading unifies the liberal arts, that particular texts unify or propose a unity of knowledge of the arts, that the imagining of the good city is an apt metaphor for envisioning a meeting place of thinking and creating, that ethics must be applied as a mode of inquiry to all kinds of texts and knowledge, and that the union of the good ( phronesis ) and the truth ( sophia ) into wisdom should be the aim of liberal arts education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)