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1 online resource (155 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : reclaiming the vanishing West / Bradley C.S. Watson -- Abounding anomalies : on the fragility of the western achievement / Steven H. Balch -- The rise of the universities and the revolution of the Middle Ages / Toby Huff -- Civilization among many? : academic reflections on the West and the rest / Daniel P. Mahoney -- Life under compulsion : rejecting the glorious liberty of the children of God / Anthony Esolen -- Learning to be free : the connection between liberal and civic education / Patrick J. Deneen -- Can virtue be taught? : western civilization and moral formation / Robert C. Koons -- Classics and not hog-wash / Anthony O'Hear -- Democracy's hope : Fanny Price in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park / Norma Thompson. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Education, Humanistic -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Western civilization and the academy. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] |
| ISBN |
9781498517553 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781498517577 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781498517560 (e-book) |
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