...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. Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom THE WRONG WORDS IN THE WRONG TIMES Ramona Naddaff...

...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...

...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...

... those in art history to study objects and also texts normally regarded as outside of their purview. Symposium: In the Humanities Classroom TEACHING ABOUT OBJECTS Caroline Walker Bynum It is a Monday morning in late January 2015 and not so much snowing...

... 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...

...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...

... 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 to think critically, to value responsibility, to respond aesthetically, to vote wisely...

... —  dis - Johann Gottfried Herder humanities teaching aesthetics human language © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 ...

... 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 points about cultural context and careful...

... 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...

... is a teaching doctrine social This addressed. is doctrine social Church’s the that mankind, of end ultimate and Creator ofone God, the name one the in   society of promotion and care humanity’s of and unique...

...; 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...

... Georges Perec: A Life in Words, Jacques Tati: His Life and Art, Roman Gary: A Tall Story, and Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, as well as translations of works by Perec, Gary, Georges Simenon, and Ismail Kadare. Ermanno Bencivenga, professor of the humanities...

... 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...