商品簡介
This volume reminds readers that dedicated teachers at colleges and universities are passing on the heritage of liberal education as well as constructing its future. All readers will benefit from the insights of this volume the historical, ethical, literary and philosophical perspectives provided by core text liberal arts education.
作者簡介
Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. In addition to numerous articles in political and legal philosophy, he is coauthor ofPolitical Ideologies and the Democratic Idealand author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism and of the forthcomingPlaying Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment.
Christopher Metress is University Professor and Associate Provost for Academics at Samford University, where teaches courses in literature, history, and the western intellectual tradition. His essays have appeared such journals as the Southern Review,Studies in the Novel, and theAfrican American Review, and he serves on the editorial board ofEnglish Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. He has published three books, most recentlyEmmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (co-edited with Harriet Pollack).
J. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the Series editor of ACTC Proceedings