The Resource Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history, Herman L. Sinaiko ; foreword by Joel Beck
Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history, Herman L. Sinaiko ; foreword by Joel Beck
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- Summary
- Herman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and his invitations to read or reread, a wide selection of major literary and philosophical works - from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. Taking a conversational approach, he deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have always raised and investigates how works of great art may provide answers to these questions
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 338 pages
- Contents
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- Socrates and Freud: talk and truth -- Plato's Laches: psychotherapy and the search for wisdom -- Reading Homer's Iliad -- Homer's Odyssey: the adolescence of Telemachus -- History, poetry, and philosophy in Tolstoy's War and peace -- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Theme, structure, and meaning in Herodotus' history -- Yeats's "among school children": analyzing a lyric poem -- Conrad's Heart of darkness: art and the artist -- Shelley's Frankenstein: reflections on the monster -- The Analects: Confucius' claim to philosophical greatness -- Chinese and English lyric poetry: art and the comparison of cultures
- Tragedy and psychoanalysis: tragedy in poetry and in life -- Hume's "of the standard of taste": how is the canon determined? -- Plato's Protagoras: who will teach the teachers? -- Energizing the classroom: the structure of teaching -- The value of failure: structure and argument in Republic, book I -- Knowing, being, and the community: the divided line and the cave in Republic, books VI and VII -- The ancient quarrel: Socrates' critique of poetry in Republic, book X -- Dialogue and dialectic: the limitations on human wisdom
- Isbn
- 9780300065299
- Label
- Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history
- Title
- Reclaiming the canon
- Title remainder
- essays on philosophy, poetry, and history
- Statement of responsibility
- Herman L. Sinaiko ; foreword by Joel Beck
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Herman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko's thoughts on, and his invitations to read or reread, a wide selection of major literary and philosophical works - from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. Taking a conversational approach, he deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have always raised and investigates how works of great art may provide answers to these questions
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sinaiko, Herman L
- Dewey number
- 809
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PN81
- LC item number
- .S5274 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Canon (Literature)
- Literature
- Canon
- Letterkunde
- Literatur
- Philosophie
- Kanon
- Label
- Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history, Herman L. Sinaiko ; foreword by Joel Beck
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-338)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Socrates and Freud: talk and truth -- Plato's Laches: psychotherapy and the search for wisdom -- Reading Homer's Iliad -- Homer's Odyssey: the adolescence of Telemachus -- History, poetry, and philosophy in Tolstoy's War and peace -- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Theme, structure, and meaning in Herodotus' history -- Yeats's "among school children": analyzing a lyric poem -- Conrad's Heart of darkness: art and the artist -- Shelley's Frankenstein: reflections on the monster -- The Analects: Confucius' claim to philosophical greatness -- Chinese and English lyric poetry: art and the comparison of cultures
- Tragedy and psychoanalysis: tragedy in poetry and in life -- Hume's "of the standard of taste": how is the canon determined? -- Plato's Protagoras: who will teach the teachers? -- Energizing the classroom: the structure of teaching -- The value of failure: structure and argument in Republic, book I -- Knowing, being, and the community: the divided line and the cave in Republic, books VI and VII -- The ancient quarrel: Socrates' critique of poetry in Republic, book X -- Dialogue and dialectic: the limitations on human wisdom
- Control code
- 37712958
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300065299
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97040723
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)37712958
- Label
- Reclaiming the canon : essays on philosophy, poetry, and history, Herman L. Sinaiko ; foreword by Joel Beck
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-338)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Socrates and Freud: talk and truth -- Plato's Laches: psychotherapy and the search for wisdom -- Reading Homer's Iliad -- Homer's Odyssey: the adolescence of Telemachus -- History, poetry, and philosophy in Tolstoy's War and peace -- Tolstoy's Anna Karenina -- Theme, structure, and meaning in Herodotus' history -- Yeats's "among school children": analyzing a lyric poem -- Conrad's Heart of darkness: art and the artist -- Shelley's Frankenstein: reflections on the monster -- The Analects: Confucius' claim to philosophical greatness -- Chinese and English lyric poetry: art and the comparison of cultures
- Tragedy and psychoanalysis: tragedy in poetry and in life -- Hume's "of the standard of taste": how is the canon determined? -- Plato's Protagoras: who will teach the teachers? -- Energizing the classroom: the structure of teaching -- The value of failure: structure and argument in Republic, book I -- Knowing, being, and the community: the divided line and the cave in Republic, books VI and VII -- The ancient quarrel: Socrates' critique of poetry in Republic, book X -- Dialogue and dialectic: the limitations on human wisdom
- Control code
- 37712958
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 338 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300065299
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97040723
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)37712958
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