Western civilization and the academy /

Western civilization and the academy / edited Bradley C.S. Watson. - 1 online resource (155 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781498517560 (e-book)


Education, Humanistic--United States.
Education, Higher--Philosophy.--United States
Civilization, Western--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

LC1011 / .W46 2015

370.11/2