Contents
List of Contributors
Chapter Abstracts
Introduction
Part ONE: Liberal Arts as a Classroom of Character and Judgment
1. The Modern Academy and the Ancient Virtue of Phronesis
2. Two Cheers for Deparochialization
3. The Contours of the Canon: Liberal Education, Universalism, and Representation
4. An Outsider Looking in: Christine de Pizan on Classical Learning
5. Shame and the liberal education of the democratic self
6. Liberal Education as Civic Education: The Philosopher’s Curriculum in Plato’s Republic
Part TWO: Liberal Arts as a Classroom of Citizenship
7. The Garden of Citizenship: Liberal education as the Cultivation of Just Sentiments
8. Liberal Education as “Spiritual Exercise”: On the Life of the Mind in the Age of Social Media
9. Liberal Education and the Limits of Science and Technology: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
10. Liberal Education Is AntiTechnological
11. Transference and the Future of teacher-student Intimacy
12. From Impatience to Compassion: Educating from Restlessness to Responsibility
13. The Cosmopolitan Education of Hobbits: Friendship and Political Deliberation in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring
Part THREE: Liberal Arts and the Future of the Classroom
14. Academic Freedom and the Future of the Liberal Arts
15. Leo Strauss and the Humanity of Liberal Education
16. Liberal Education and American Democracy
17. How Business Schools Can Prepare Students For Twenty-First-Century Success By Renewing Their Liberal Arts Roots
18. The Role of Liberal Education in Professional Studies
19. The Paradox of Liberal Education and Modernity
Index