Beyond utility : Liberal education for a technological age /
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| Author / Creator: | Moulakis, Athanasios, 1945- |
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| Imprint: | Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1994. |
| Description: | viii, 171 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1515599 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Doing Things Right - and Learning the Right Things to Do: Liberal Education for Engineers. 1. Speaking One's Mind. 2. A Manly Profession. 3. Second Thoughts: The Needs of Advanced Industrial Societies. 4. Literacy and Democracy. 5. Technology and Freedom. 6. Efficiency vs. the Love of One's Own. 7. Cultural Literacy. 8. Of Content and Form in Teaching
- Pt. 2. The American Way in Liberal Education. 9. The Tower of Babel. 10. E Pluribus Unum? 11. Diversity and Its Discontents. 12. "O! that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" 13. Innocents Abroad. 14. Manifest Destiny vs. the Serpent Columbus. 15. Babylonian Captivity and the Suffering Servant. 16. Separation as Collective Therapy. 17. The Crustacean Theory of Culture. 18. Herstory? 19. Conformity and Individuality
- Pt. 3. The Confusion of Tongues. 20. What Is the Tower of Babel For? 21. A Scientific Morality? 22. Two Cultures? 23. The Retreat from the Word. 24. Teaching Values
- Pt. 4. A Program. 25. Courses of Study. 26. Humanist Education. 27. The Civic Mission of the University. 28. Opportunities and Constraints. 29. The Text-Based Seminar.