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In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell Ascoli (UC-Berkeley), as well as a selection of top papers from the conference

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In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell Ascoli (UC-Berkeley), as well as a selection of top papers from the conference

Dante --- Richard Rorty --- ethics --- philosophy --- interdisciplinary --- pedagogy --- Dante Alighieri --- The Divine Comedy --- Homer --- The Odyssey --- Ulysses --- core curriculum --- noumena --- symbolism --- higher education --- core and general education curricula --- literary studies --- interdisciplinarity --- great books programs --- teaching --- virtue --- formation --- understanding --- prayer --- hope --- friendship --- Christian Humanism --- The Christian Intellectual Tradition --- Literature Pedagogy --- Milton --- Spenser --- Purgatorio --- love --- education --- Virgil --- Augustine --- Confessions --- Commedia --- Inferno --- Paradiso --- theology and poetry --- medieval astrology --- Beatrice --- Gospel of Luke --- Emmaus --- figura --- Christ --- Eric Auerbach --- history of theology --- medieval theology --- Divine Comedy --- undergraduate seminar --- great books --- caritas --- Catholicism --- theology --- poetry --- the liberal arts --- Great Books programs

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Leo Strauss and his alleged political influence regarding the Iraq War have in recent years been the subject of significant media attention, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Time magazine even called him "one of the most influential men in American politics." With The Truth about Leo Strauss, Michael and Catherine Zuckert challenged the many claims and speculations about this notoriously complex thinker. Now, with Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy, they turn their attention to a searching and more comprehensive interpretation of Strauss's thought as a whole, using the many manifestations of the "problem of political philosophy" as their touchstone. For Strauss, political philosophy presented a "problem" to which there have been a variety of solutions proposed over the course of Western history. Strauss's work, they show, revolved around recovering-and restoring-political philosophy to its original Socratic form. Since positivism and historicism represented two intellectual currents that undermined the possibility of a Socratic political philosophy, the first part of the book is devoted to Strauss's critique of these two positions. Then, the authors explore Strauss's interpretation of the history of philosophy and both ancient and modern canonical political philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Locke. Strauss's often-unconventional readings of these philosophers, they argue, pointed to solutions to the problem of political philosophy. Finally, the authors examine Strauss's thought in the context of the twentieth century, when his chief interlocutors were Schmitt, Husserl, Heidegger, and Nietzsche. The most penetrating and capacious treatment of the political philosophy of this complex and often misunderstood thinker, from his early years to his last works, Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy reveals Strauss's writings as an attempt to show that the distinctive characteristics of ancient and modern thought derive from different modes of solving the problem of political philosophy and reveal why he considered the ancient solution both philosophically and politically superior.

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This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia University's early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industry's sponsorship of a business course on film at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Southern California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren.

Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism --- Motion picture industry. --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Cinéma --- Etude et enseignement --- Motion pictures - Study and teaching - United States. --- academy of motion picture arts and sciences. --- american cinema. --- american film history. --- art of cinema. --- business course on film. --- cinema. --- film industry. --- film studies. --- film. --- frederic thrasher. --- great books advocates. --- harry alan potamkin. --- historical. --- history of film studies. --- mark van doren. --- marxism. --- mortimer adler. --- movie studies. --- movies. --- new school for social research. --- photoplay composition. --- retrospective. --- sociology. --- terry ramsaye. --- united states of america.