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1 online resource (147 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Philosophica
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Collection Philosophica.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to provide a historically layered view of what it can still mean to study for its own sake. The elective university classroom is important because the course of study is chosen out of personal interest and enthusiasm, as opposed to being primarily governed by predetermined disciplinary objectives. It engages the student's mind directly and freely, and counters the overly specialized minds favoured by the contemporary university as well as the commodification of its degrees. The discussion builds on the distinction put forward by Raymond Williams between a dominant culture (in this case, university study as contributing to research and/or marketable degrees) and alternative and/or oppositional cultures that have both residual and emergent dimensions. The elective stream of university study is treated as alternative and oppositional to the dominant culture. The elective university classroom is examined as a combination of a classroom, students, texts, and professors. Each element is explored in terms of its alternative/residual significance as illustrated through the history of philosophy: the classroom and students through the life and death of Socrates; texts through the origins of the university in medieval scholasticism; the professor in the Humboldtian reform of the university at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Berlin."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction : what are we doing here? -- Part one : meeting place : Socrates in the Agora -- Part two : placing the text -- Part three : professors in place. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- History.
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching. |
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History. |
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Universities and colleges -- Elective system.
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Universities and colleges -- Elective system. |
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EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fillion, Réal Robert, 1963- Elective mind. Ottawa, Ontario : University of Ottawa Press, 2021 0776629581 9780776629582 (OCoLC)1233177499 |
| ISBN |
9780776629575 electronic book |
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0776629573 electronic book |
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9780776629568 electronic book |
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0776629565 electronic book |
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