Collection
Publication
University Of Chicago Press (2006), 256 pages
Description
In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine considers the liberal education that our universities purport to offer, finds it lacking, and in response proposes fresh and invigorating ways to think about liberal learning that are more suited to our times. Levine begins by defining basic values of modernity and then considering pertinent curricular principles. The principles he favors are powers of the mind ?disciplines understood as fields of study defined less by their subject matter than by the distinct intellectual capacities they embody. To illustrate, Levine dra
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
256 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0226475530 / 9780226475530
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