The Great ideas today, 1996
By: Mortimer J. Adler, editor
Contributors: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780852296318
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Film, attention, and communication / Noel Carroll; title: Rethinking the art of medicine / Mark Swaim and Galen Wagner. II. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Shakespeare's fairy tales : Cordelia as Cinderella / Cynthia L. Rutz; title: Montaigne's psychology / Jon Elster; title: The condition of knowledge / Charles Van Doren. III. Special features. Virtuality / Thomas K. Simpson; title: On Robert's rules of order / George Anastaplo; title: Poetic justice / John Van Doren. IV. Additions to the great books library. Selections from Science and culture / Hermann von Helmholtz (On Goethe's scientific researches ; On thought in medicine); title: Selected stories / Elizabeth Gaskell (Mr. Harrison's confessions ; Crowley castle ; The Manchester marriage). V. Comments on recent books. The varieties of metaphysical poetry [by T.S. Eliot] / John Bayley; title: The morality of happiness [by Julia Annas] / Deal W. Hudson; title: The age of extremes : a history of the world 1914-1991 [by Eric Hobsbawm] / Thomas K. Simpson; title: The origin of Satan [by Elaine Pagels] / John Polkinghorne; title: Mozart : a life [by Maynard Solomon] / Douglas Allanbrook; title: From the heat of the day and The murderer [by Roy Heath] / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; title: Integrity [by Stephen L. Carter] / George Anastaplo; title: The language instinct [by Stephen Pinker] / Otto Bird.