How can a course called Chinese Religions or Haitian Culture and Society incorporate readings from the “Western canon”? Florida university faculty have until July to figure it out. A new Florida law ...
DePaul University philosophy professor Jason D. Hill recently warned about the ominous effects of the erosion of canonical texts and reason in the college classroom. While my colleague covers much ...
Updating traditional Western canon could support a more holistic view of humanities The Western canon, a collection of classical works that forms of the basis of the humanities, is mostly the product ...
In The American Scholar, Robert Zaretsky argues that we need to do something about the Western canon. Exactly what, he’s not sure. He begins by saying that when he started teaching he was committed to ...
Not all of these writers might be considered “Western,” yet each of them are featured on this quarter’s syllabus for Stanford’s Structured Liberal Education (SLE) program. This reflects a growing ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a recent Monday morning, 15 bleary-eyed high school seniors in Phoenix, Arizona, ...
I hope I shall not seem unduly chauvinistic in claiming the su­periority of the Western canon, when I think myself merely duly chauvinistic in doing so. I do not know enough about Chinese or Indian or ...