Contemplation, Crisis, Construct

Acknowledgements

Introduction
J. Scott Lee, John Ruff, Cynthia Rutz, Jane Kelley Rodeheffer

Appropriating Core Texts in the Curriculum

Expanding Core Texts Across Borders:
A Paideia for a World Encounter
Phillip Sloan

The Humanities Core and the Troubling Persistence of the “Two Cultures”
James Woelfel

World Literature Survey Courses in the Age of Globalization
Alexander Dunlop

Enduring Hiccups and Party Crashing: Contemplation, Crisis and
Construct in Plato’s Symposium and in Classroom Practice
James M. Vest

Contemplation

The Bridge of Game: Play as Meditation
Graham Forst

Freudian Confessions: Reading Augustine Through Freud
Vicki Tromanhauser

The Virtual Cities of Christine de Pizan and Plato
Jay Lutz

A Tale of Two “I’s”: Descartes’s Metaphysical and
Autobiographical Subjects
Donald Marshall

“Refracted Light”: Tolkien’s “Mythopoeia” and the Authority
of Imaginative Literature
Ann McGlashan

“But Does It Really Work?”: Considering the Co-Inquiry Approach
Kathleen Mullany

Construct

A Plea for Science Texts in the Core: Galileo and Darwin as Exemplars
Patrick Flynn

Bridging the Gap: Science Core Texts in a Writing Course
Jean-Marie Kauth

Echoes of Chambers: On Some Difficulties in Teaching The Origin
of Species as a Core Text
David Depew

Plato Appropriating Socrates’s Death as Core Text into the Curriculum
Steven Robinson

The Synthetic Vision of Proust
Nicolas Margaritis

Crisis

Psychological Crisis and Character Development in Plato’s Protagoras
Jonathan Lavery

Other Victims: Teaching Hersey’s Hiroshima in the Wake of 9/11
Diana Curtis

Core Texts and Crisis – A Case Study: Stillman Drake’s Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Kevin Staley 117

Achilles in Crisis: The Limits of Contextualism
Tim Spiekerman