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Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver
Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass
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2012
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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.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4160-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4161-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction: The Career of Leon Kass No access
1: The Homecoming of Penelope No access Pages 1 - 20
2: The World through Ben's Bifocals No access Pages 21 - 34
3: Medicalizing Childhood No access Pages 35 - 48
4: Washington Square No access Pages 49 - 64
5: The Silence of the Spartan No access Pages 65 - 88
6: Torah Transformed No access Pages 89 - 100
7: Leon Kass and the Poets No access Pages 101 - 108
8: Toward a Richer Public Bioethics No access Pages 109 - 122
9: Philosophic Anthropology in Rousseau and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas No access Pages 123 - 152
10: Self-knowledge and Moral Seriousness in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice No access Pages 153 - 174
11: From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires No access Pages 175 - 196
12: Fraternity in Antigone No access Pages 197 - 226
13: Children of Skeptics No access Pages 227 - 246
14: The God-Seeking Animal No access Pages 247 - 256
15: The Traditional Animal No access Pages 257 - 272
Courses Taught by Leon R. Kass No access Pages 273 - 274
Published Writings of Leon R. Kass No access Pages 275 - 286
