Outline of Josef Pieper's "Leisure the Basis of Culture" (literally, "Leisure and Worship") and "The Philosophical Act" (1947) https://www.academia.edu/36949063/Outline_of_Pieper_Leisure_the_Basis_of_Culture.pdf … Pieper shows us how to preserve the human creature in a Jüngerian "world of total work" through philosophy, leisure, and worship
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"Outline of Leo Strauss's "What Is Liberal Education?" (1959) and "Liberal Education and Responsibility" (1962) https://www.academia.edu/36949065/Outline_of_Strauss_on_liberal_education.pdf … Strauss couples the radical doubt about modernity implicit in the Great Books movement with a disbelief in any "simply authoritative tradition"
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Outline of Jacob Klein's "The Idea of Liberal Education" (1960) and "On Liberal Education" (1965) https://www.academia.edu/36949064/Outline_of_Klein_on_liberal_education … Klein argues for liberal education rooted in the deepest form of questioning (metastrophic/periagogic), laying out the rationale for
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Outline of Eva Brann's "Paradoxes of Education in a Republic" (1979) https://www.academia.edu/36949092/Outline_of_Brann.pdf … Brann gives a historical-theoretical justification for
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Much more could be said about all of the above. The chief virtue of my overlong "outlines": they contain a great deal of the content. But, go read the originals! I think they are chief among the essential works for reviving liberal education in American higher ed.
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Last but not least: outline of C.S. Lewis, "The Abolition of Man" (1943) https://www.academia.edu/36959465/Outline_of_Lewis_Abolition_of_Man … Lewis argues against aesthetic and moral relativism and the fact-value distinction, and deconstructs the modern claim to achieve technological dominance of nature
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One more from my History of Liberal Arts Education course: outline of Rorty, "Trotsky & the Wild Orchids" (1992) https://www.academia.edu/37019611/Outline_of_Rorty_Trotsky_and_the_Wild_Orchids … Rorty's intellectual autobiography justifies the state of soul of a progressive, post-foundational pragmatist, content w bourgeois democracy
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Here’s my review of The Rise of the Research University, an indispensable resource for understanding the context for the various and ongoing attempts to revive liberal arts education
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Would you email your syllabus to my Skidmore address? ftaylor at skidmore
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Another essay that could be read along with these is “Loss of the Creature” by Walker Percy.
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