The Humanist as citizen /
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| Language: | English |
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[Chapel Hill] :
National Humanities Center :
[1981]
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Table of Contents:
- Why the humanities? / Charles Frankel
- The true political man / Samuel Scolnicov
- Isaac Newton and humanistic values in science / B.J.T. Dobbs
- Joel Barlow, the man of letters as citizen / Lewis Leary
- Lincoln, statesmanship, and the humanities / John Agresto
- Friends and friendship, Greek style / Gerald F. Else
- The moral issue is Sebastian Brant's Ship of fools / Carl Nordenfalk
- The flight from history in mid-eighteenth century poetry and twentieth-century criticism / John Sitter
- Doing literature on Dover Beach / Muriel Bradbrook
- Elitism and culture / Abraham Edel and Elizabeth Flower
- The value of the humanities, a folklorist's view / Richard M. Dorson
- Encounters with the international educator / Torsten Husen
- The humanities, the universities, and public policy / William Bennett
- The physician as citizen / Nicholas P. Christy
- The humanist and his dilemmas / Jacob L. Talmon
- Charles Frankel, the humanist as citizen / William Leuchtenburg.