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...Émilie Hache Oliver Kelly , Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 ), 376 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel...

...Lynn Hunt This essay—a contribution to “Inside the Humanities Classroom,” a seriatim symposium in Common Knowledge —is a first-person account of the development and teaching of an online version of a UCLA course on the history of Western civilization (1715 to the present). The author finds...

... and cultural climate. They conclude that the language of personal rights and the demand for self-protection tend to come at the expense of teaching and learning alike. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Greek rhetoric rape “trigger warnings” humanities teaching...

...Mary Harvey Doyno As part of a series of case studies titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay asks how one can teach college students with little or no exposure to close reading, critical analysis, or the premodern world to read a text written c. 202 CE. An instructor at Sacramento State...

... those in art history to study objects and also texts normally regarded as outside of their purview. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 objects humanities teaching n'kisi n'kondi Marilynne Robinson medieval nuns Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom...

...William P. Caferro This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Inside the Humanities Classroom” describes the experience of teaching a single class meeting of the year-long Western Civilization survey course at Vanderbilt University. The essay examines both...

...Youval Rotman As a contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a four-hour meeting of an undergraduate seminar on historiography at Tel Aviv University. The students and instructor alike are enabled, by analyzing...

... Lear have reached similar conclusions, using comparable means, at roughly the same time, in a context as much literary as psychoanalytic. Freud himself described the mind in literary (which is to say, dramatic) terms, but whereas he understood the human psychic drama as Oedipal and thus tragic...

... in this world.” Consequently, he placed Quietism within a negatively-constructed framework of belief, identifying much of its influence in Quaker history on the spiritual teachings of the Miguel de Molinos, Madame Guyon, and François Fénelon. This article examines Jones's premise that Quietism was “no more...

... is conceived in terms of social obligations, of guilt and sin, of revenge, and as a plot that structures the narrative of human life. Instead of simply looking to the archaic meanings of debt for its shadow side, this review attempts to take stock of what the recent credit crisis can teach us about the place...

... the university and the humanities. Newspapers print earnest op-­ed pieces lauding the critical thinking or sense of values that the humanities can bring. To young people afraid of a tight job market and under pressure from scared parents, these all seem a little vague. How do the humanities teach someone...

... by Duke University Press 2017 Johann Gottfried Herder humanities teaching aesthetics human language Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom HERDER’S SHEEP Dorothea von Mücke My course Aesthetics and the Philosophy of History aims at introducing...

... theory, or hortatory pronouncements, what went on in five humanities classrooms at five institutions in the years 2015 and 2016. We have tried, in other words, to take our readers through an hour or two of actual teach- ing, showing how ideas build on one another in discussion, how very complex...

... 2009 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen is the author of Truth in Philosophy, Knowledge and Civilization and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He teaches philosophy at McMaster Uni- versity and is associate editor...

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...; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China. He received the inaugural Onassis International Prize for Humanities in 2009. Ardis Butterfield, John M. Schiff Professor of English and professor of French and music at Yale University, is the author...

... 2012 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen’s books include Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor...

... of the humanities and philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, is the author of more than forty books in three languages, including Return from Exile: A Theory of Possibility; Looser Ends: The Practice of Philosophy; A Theory of Language and Mind; Logic...

... 2011 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen teaches philosophy at McMaster University and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics. His publications include Truth in Philosophy; Knowl- edge...

... Antiquity on the Eve of Islam: The Formation of Classical Islam; and volumes 13 and 14 of the Cambridge Ancient History. Adam S. Cohen, who has recently returned from teaching at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art on a Getty Foundation grant, is associate professor of medieval art history...