Co-published with the Association for Core Text and Courses, this book contains a collection of core texts that are appropriate for students of all majors. The volume is a resource for educators attempting to create a cohesive structure to their curriculum, integrating it with texts of cultural significance. Students, through critical thinking, bridge discipline (science and the arts), culture (East and West), and time period (ancient and modern). Rich with possibility for either public or private colleges, Core Texts in Conversation is a valuable guide for curriculum building in any discipline.
Preface vii Introduction ix I. Core Texts and the History and Philosophy of Science Core Text/Context: Reading Darwin Between the Lines 1(12) Timothy Lenoir Goulds ``Nonoverlapping Magisteria: The Real Issue Between Theism and Darwinism 13(6) James Woelfel Galileos Faith 19(4) Darrel D. Colson Following the Passionate Atoms: Epicurus and Lucretius 23(8) Stephen Duguid Symbol, the Infinite, and Paradox: Euclidean Essentials 31(5) Don Thompson A Crack in the Surface, 1601: Hamlet Reads Lucretian Atomism 36(5) Theodora S. Carlile Why Read Ptolemy? 41(8) Peter Kalkavage II. Feminist and Modernist Issues in Core Texts Under the Gaze of the Ancients: Dante, Foucault and the Discipline of Being Seen by the Curriculum 49(8) Stewart W. Herman Marguerite De Navarre, Louise Labe, Rabelais, and Montaigne: Feminist Issues in the Sixteenth Century 57(8) A.G. Arthur Miltons Satan: Victim of Sibling Rivalry? 65(6) Joan Faust Confronting the Fragments: Eliots Four Qrartets 71(8) Christopher L. Constas When Learning Goes Awry: Meditations on the Malleus Malificarum 79(10) Anne Leavitt III. Ancient and Medieval Gaps: Classical Core Texts from Eastern and Western Traditions A Social Science Core Text from the Medieval Islamic World: Ibn Khalduns Muqaddimah and its Model of Social Change 89(12) Thomas Barfield Teaching the Confucian Analects 101(6) Brian Jorgensen Core Texts and The Cultivation of Virtue: Reading Confucius Reading Plato 107(10) Jane Kelley Rodeheffer Confronting Preconceptions Concerning the Past in Gilgamesh and its Biblical Parallels 117(6) James M. Vest In the Medieval Gap with Dantes Admiral Beatrice 123(8) James F. Walter Machiavellis Debt to Medieval Thought 131(8) IV. New Perspectives on Shakespeare as Core Text Shakespeare in the Core Curriculum 139(10) David Bevington Prophecy Eclipsed: Hamlet as a Tragedy of Knowledge 149(6) William Franke Speech in Dumbness: Female Eloquence and Male Authority in The Winters Tale 155(8) Ellen Belton Forgiving Prospero: The Audiences ``Rarer Action in The Tempest 163(12) Barrett Fisher Instructions to Ariel: A Way to Understand Prosperos Political Plan 175(6) Darcy Wudel V. Core Texts and Writing Antigone, Writing, and Linked Classes 181(6) Terese Balistreri Hartman Memories, Stories, Histories, Student Journal Writing and the Construction of Meaning 187(10) Katherine Platt Writing About and Through Herman Melvilles Moby Dick: Reading and Thinking Interdisciplinarily 197 David Sokolowski
Jane Kelley Rodeheffer is Professor of Humanities, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Lasallian Honors Program at St. Mary's University of Minnesota. J. Scott Lee is Visiting Assistant Professor in Intellectual Heritage and in English at Temple University. David Sokolowski is a Professor at St. Mary's University of Minnesota.
