Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver (eBook)

Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass

Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, Adam Schulman (Herausgeber)

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2012
296 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4161-8 (ISBN)

Infos

For more than forty years Leon R. Kass has been a prolific and distinguished writer, an outstanding teacher of the humanities, and a wise interpreter of the moral implications of modern science. In Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, fifteen of his colleagues, students, and friends celebrate his life's work with a collection of essays on themes and issues that have been of central concern to his scholarship.

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Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades_as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's admirers, including students, colleagues, and friends, honor his work by reflecting on the broad range of subjects to which he has devoted his life's work. Some of the essays offer interpretations of great works of literature and philosophy from Homer, Sophocles, and Plato to Rousseau, Franklin, Jane Austen, Hawthorne, and Henry James. Others examine the significance of Leon Kass's work as a bioethicist and Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics and as an interpreter of the Book of Genesis. The essays collected in Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver offer a sense of the breadth of Kass's interests and insights and of the influence he has had on generations of scholars. The reader is further acquainted with the career of Leon R. Kass by a biographical introduction and a comprehensive listing of his published writings and the courses he has taught.

Autor

Yuval Levin is editor of National Aff airs and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. Thomas W. Merrill is assistant professor of government at American University in Washington, DC, and was a senior research analyst at the PresidentOs Council on Bioethics. Adam Schulman is a tutor at St. JohnOs College, Annapolis, and was a senior research consultant at the PresidentOs Council on Bioethics.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Career of Leon Kass Chapter 2 Chapter 1: The Homecoming of Penelope Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The World through Ben's Bifocals Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Medicalizing Childhood Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Washington Square Chapter 6 Chapter 5: The Silence of the Spartan Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Torah Transformed Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Leon Kass and the Poets Chapter 9 Chapter 8: Toward a Richer Public Bioethics Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Philosophic Anthropology in Rousseau and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Chapter 11 Chapter 10: Self-knowledge and Moral Seriousness in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Chapter 12 Chapter 11: From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Fraternity in Antigone Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Children of Skeptics Chapter 15 Chapter 14: The God-Seeking Animal Chapter 16 Chapter 15: The Traditional Animal Chapter 17 Courses Taught by Leon R. Kass Chapter 18 Published Writings of Leon R. Kass

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.7.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Bioethics • ethics • Philosophy • Philosophy and Ethics • Political Science • political theory • Public Policy • Religion • Social and political philosophy
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4161-9 / 0739141619
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4161-8 / 9780739141618