Who Are We? Old, New, and Timeless Answers from Core Texts
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated; University Press of America
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780761853718
Subjects: Essays
Description: "In this volume, the Association for Core Texts and Courses has gathered essays of literary and philosophical accounts that explain who we are simply as persons. Further, essays are included that highlight the person as entwined with other persons and examine who we are in light of communal ties. The essays reflect both the Western experience of democracy and how community informs who we are more generally. Our historical position in a modern or post-modern, urbanized or disenchanted world is explored by yet other papers. And, finally, ACTC educators model the intellectual life for students and colleagues by showing how to read texts carefully and with sophistication--as an example of who we can be"--Page 4 of cover.