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050	0	4	_aB52 _b.E443 2021
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFillion, Réal Robert, _d1963- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe elective mind : _bphilosophy and the undergraduate degree / _cRéal Fillion.
300			_a1 online resource (147 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aPhilosophica
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520	0		_a"This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to provide a historically layered view of what it can still mean to study for its own sake. The elective university classroom is important because the course of study is chosen out of personal interest and enthusiasm, as opposed to being primarily governed by predetermined disciplinary objectives. It engages the student's mind directly and freely, and counters the overly specialized minds favoured by the contemporary university as well as the commodification of its degrees. The discussion builds on the distinction put forward by Raymond Williams between a dominant culture (in this case, university study as contributing to research and/or marketable degrees) and alternative and/or oppositional cultures that have both residual and emergent dimensions. The elective stream of university study is treated as alternative and oppositional to the dominant culture. The elective university classroom is examined as a combination of a classroom, students, texts, and professors. Each element is explored in terms of its alternative/residual significance as illustrated through the history of philosophy: the classroom and students through the life and death of Socrates; texts through the origins of the university in medieval scholasticism; the professor in the Humboldtian reform of the university at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Berlin."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction : what are we doing here? -- _tPart one : meeting place : Socrates in the Agora -- _tPart two : placing the text -- _tPart three : professors in place.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aPhilosophy-Ancient
650		0	_aPhilosophy _xStudy and teaching _xHistory.
650		0	_aUniversities and colleges _xElective system.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
690			_aPhilosophy-Ancient
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3026861&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell