Humanistic education and Western civilization: essays for Robert M. Hutchins
By: [by] Mortimer J. Adler [and others] Edited with an introd. by Arthur A. Cohen.
Contributors: Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-; Education, Humanistic.; Civilization, Western.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Prepared in honor of Robert M. Hutchins' sixty-fifth birthday.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Robert Maynard Hutchins: the educator as moralist, by A.A. Cohen.; title: Democratic values and Western civilization: International democracy, by P.C. Jessup. The future of democracy; a swan song, by J.M. Adler. The society of the dialogue, by W.O. Douglas. Toward a political theory of education, by B. de Jouvenel. The universalization of Western civilization, by E.M. Borgese. The conjugation of a Greek verb: persuasion and the life of politics, by S. Buchanan.; title: The past and future of humanistic education: The dilemmas of humanistic education in the United States, by O.M. Wilson. Humanistic education in India, by H. Kabir. Principles and particulars in liberal education, by F.C. Ward. "A connected view of things," by R.G. Tugwell. The liberating arts and the humanizing arts in education, by R.P. McKeon. Innovation and reaction in higher education, by D. Riesman. To know and to do, by M. Mayer. On the future of humanistic education, by J.C. Murray.