Engaging Worlds

Robert D. Anderson is a longtime faculty member of the Philosophy Department at Saint Anselm College and the co-director of its Integrated Studies in the Great Books ProgramMolly Brigid Flynn is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the College Honors Program, Assumption College, Worcester MAJ. Scott Lee is the Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses and the ACTC Selected Proceedings series editor.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionRobert D. Anderson, Molly Brigid Flynn, and J. Scott LeePart I. A Good Mind Is Hard to FindFate, Hope, and ClarityRichard Kamber Wrestling with the God(s)Benjamin W. Westervelt Teaching Frederick Douglass as a Master RhetoricianHollis RobbinsTeaching Arendt’s Eichmann in Jersualem as an Introduction to PhilosophyJoshua A. ShmiklerUsing Fiction and Nonfiction by Barbara Kingsolver to Help Students Think across DisciplinesHeather McGovernPart II. When Cultures MeetMontequieu’s Persian Letters and the Uses of ComparativismHenry C. ClarkIshmael’s Initiation into the Revelry of WorkEmily HeyneEngaging Cultures: Is the Melting Pot Still Cooking?Lyndall NairnThe Problem with Engaging Worlds: E. M. Forster’s Suspicion of CultureTim MackinTapestry: Christian and Classical Mélange in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces and PerelandraCharles FisherPart III. Modern, Postmodern, and Future HorizonsButler among the Mechanists: Fiction and Nonfiction in the Evolution of Machines (EREWHON as a Core Text)Dorion SaganBeauty’s Contexts: Symposium Then and NowMark WalterDescartes’s Doubt and the Beginning of the Modern WorldNeil G. RobertsonTeaching Pascal in Modern and Postmodern ContextsChristopher AnadaleCore Values and a Historicized Reading of Franklin’s AutobiographyVince J. BrewtonPart IV. Challenges from Core TextsWordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads and the Principle of PleasureSpencer HallQuantum Feline: The Prescience of Poe’s Black Cat J. Scott Miller“… He winces not”: The Souls of Black Folk as a Foundational Core TextPage Laws A Journey to Self: A Psychological Analysis of Fauset’s Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral Karen Y. HolmesSilko’s Ceremony as a Core Text: Natural and Unnatural WorldsJean-Marie KauthPart V. Political Worlds and Worldly PoliticsSocrates and Crito: Anxiety and the Engagement between the Empirical and Analytic (Ideal) Worlds of AthensKieran M. BonnerEconomics as a Force of Nature in Aristotle’s Politics: An Antireductionist ViewMolly Brigid FlynnHumanities Education and the Hidden Civic Virtue of DoubtMark BlackellToqueville and the Problem of Associational AutonomyThomas M.J. BatemanTeaching about Evil and Politics Using Elie Wiesel’s NightTim MeinkePart VI. Moral Images of HumankindUsing Nussbaum to Link Socrates, Tartuffe, and Raise the Red Lantern with Today’s Global CitizenKathleen A. KellyNovel Knowledge in Turgenev’s Fathers and SonsJames N. RoneyHow to Illustrate Blind Ambition to a Business Student: Looking at the World through the Eyes of Dreiser’s The FinancierVincent RamaTayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North and the Pathologies of Moral PhilosophyIrfan Khawaja