Free Thinking

How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts

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Whether you skipped college or need a refresher or supplementto what you learned, humanities professor Joseph Manca shows how acollege-level liberal arts education can be essentially free and accessible in‘Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts’.Professor Manca provides listings and commentaries to help you study and enjoyhigh-quality texts, works of art, films, and classical music.Thebook lays out a curriculum that, like college, one can follow over four years,or at your own pace. The chapters are arranged—not along the lines oftraditional academic departments—but more like life itself, with categoriessuch as love and desire, utopia and dystopia, and our relationship to thenatural world. This is not a traditional Canon, but is instead a lively listingof stimulating fiction, nonfiction, and important artworks and music.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-12
Mått129 x 198 x 32 mm
Vikt386 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagThe Conrad Press
ISBN9781916966864

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Joseph Manca is a Professor of ArtHistory and the Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History in the Schoolof Humanities of Rice University. He received his Ph.D. from ColumbiaUniversity, and for decades has taught core humanities courses and art historyclasses. His published books include the award-winning ‘George Washington’s Eye’(2012; Johns Hopkins University Press) and ‘Shaker Vision’ (2019; University ofMassachusetts Press). He currently serves at Rice as Director of UndergraduatesStudies in Art History.‘There is noprecedent for a work like this. It is scholarly and down to earth at thesame time. This is an impressive and well-researched study that is bothintellectual and useful. It certainly will be useful, above all, forgeneral readers or those unable to participate in a traditional collegecurriculum.’- Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, Ph.D. Harvard University,Professor Emerita of Art History, University of New Mexico

CONTENTS Ch. 1: AFramework for Knowledge: Letters, Art, Film, Music 7 YEAR ONECh. 2: TheCurriculum Begins: Learning French 14Ch. 3: TowardMastering the English Language 17Ch. 4: GlobalArt History: Texts and Some Primary Sources 47Ch. 5: InternationalFilm and Music 71Ch. 6: Insightsinto the Human Mind 86Ch. 7: Loveand Desire 125Ch. 8: Readingsin French 141 YEAR TWOCh. 9: LearningGerman 144Ch. 10: Epistemologyand Metaphysics 146Ch. 11: Learningfrom Autobiography 161Ch. 12: Historyand Revolutions 179Ch. 13: Politicsand the Structure of Society 219Ch. 14: Readingsin German 246 YEAR THREECh. 15: LearningLatin 250Ch. 16: TheEconomy, Trade, and Society 257Ch. 17: Well-beingand Ethics 270Ch. 18: IndividualLives and Achievements: Biography and Fiction 292Ch. 19: Gentility:Speaking and Acting Well and Kindly 304Ch. 20: ReligiousCulture: Foundational Texts 323Ch. 21: Readingsin Latin 336 YEAR FOURCh. 22: LearningItalian 340Ch. 23: ReligiousCulture: Later Texts 343Ch. 24: Utopiasand Dystopias 353Ch. 25: SocialCriticism and Satire 368Ch. 26: GlobalArt History: More Primary Sources, Aesthetics, andCriticism 379Ch. 27: Humansand the Natural Environment 406Ch. 28: TravelAccounts 422Ch. 29: Readingsin Italian 434Summary list of the readings, with shorttitles 436