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Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences

Mary Bouquet • Boek • paperback

  • Samenvatting
    Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations between colleagues, this volume is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of others in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts education: intellectual curiosity and the ability to communicate across borders. Written with the aim of communicating academic content to non-specialists, the essays interweave narratives about truth with various kinds of dialogue and the importance of historical consciousness. Together they illustrate the power of writing as a tool for strengthening a scholarly community.

    “A treasure trove of inventive, accessible, and deeply thoughtful writing, that ranges from astrophysics to anthropology, from literature to law, and from politics to public health. These are essays very much in the spirit of Montaigne: wise and witty, their open, exploratory, and at times personal approach make them ideal for classroom discussion. They offer us opportunity and space for valuable reflection and learning, and remind us that the liberal arts and sciences must be at the heart of debates about the human condition and the world’s most important and pressing concerns.” - Professor Ian Gadd, Academic Director of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA)

    “The classroom is where important but complex issues are explained in accessible form and language. This book offers its readers a crash course in such essential topics as truth, language, the law, religion, statistics, and history, but you don’t have to stick to a school timetable and there is no exam afterwards. It’s a feast for the mind; enjoy!” - Maarten Prak, Emeritus Professor of History at Utrecht University and first chair of the Board of Studies at University College Utrecht
  • Productinformatie
    Binding : Paperback
    Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
    Formaat : 155mm x 234mm
    Aantal pagina's : 216
    Uitgeverij : AUP Educatief
    ISBN : 9789463729369
    Datum publicatie : 08-2021
  • Inhoudsopgave
    Mary Bouquet is anthropologist, associate professor, and fellow at Utrecht University College.
    Annemieke Meijer was trained as an eighteenth-century scholar and is currently the director of UCU’s Writing programme.
    Cornelus Sanders is a dermatologist at the University Medical Centre Utrecht and the fellow of Medical Science at University College Utrecht. Table of Contents
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences
    Mary Bouquet, Annemieke Meijer and Cornelus Sanders

    I Truth
    The indispensable Truth : Postmodernism and the possibility to understand each other
    Floris van der Burg

    Fictionality, or the importance of being earnest
    Agnes Andeweg

    And Justice for All
    Alexis A. Aronowitz

    Handling tricky questions
    Jocelyn Ballantyne

    What is Meaning?
    Gaetano Fiorin

    II Dialogue
    Parmenides and Dōgen – an encounter
    Chiara Robbiano

    On being a doctor
    Cornelus Sanders

    Law, imagination, and poetry
    Bald de Vries

    Religion 2.0: Thinking about religion through technology
    Katja Rakow

    Global mental health and the evolution of clinical psychology
    Robert Dunn

    Heroes of the in-between
    Rozi Tóth and Gerard van der Ree

    III Historical Consciousness
    What history’s most overqualified calculus student tells us about liberal arts mathematics
    Viktor Blåsjö

    Statistics: The art of seeking sense in numbers
    Guus de Krom

    The canon of the Netherlands revisited
    James Kennedy

    Love thyself: An abridged history of Western portraiture
    Tijana Žakula

    Two Monuments
    Mary Bouquet

    The challenge of living on renewable energy
    Anton E.M. van de Ven

    The earth as an observatory: Team work in science
    Filipe Freire

    The First Assignment
    Markha Valenta

    List of contributors
    List of figures
    Notes
    Index of names
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