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World of Ideas : Essential Readings for College Writers by Lee Jacobus (2019, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherBedford/Saint Martin's

ISBN-101319194443

ISBN-139781319194444

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Number of Pages864 Pages

Publication NameWorld of Ideas : Essential Readings for College Writers

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

SubjectGeneral, Readers

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines

AuthorLee Jacobus

FormatTrade Paperback

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Edition Number11

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2022-441157

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Table Of ContentPreface for Instructors Note to Students EVALUATING IDEAS: An Introduction to Critical Reading WRITING ABOUT IDEAS: An Introduction to Rhetoric PART ONE: GOVERNMENT Some Considerations about the Nature of Government Lao-Tzu, Thoughts from the Tao Te Ching Niccolò Machiavelli, The Qualities of the Prince Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence *José Ortega y Gasset, The Greatest Danger, the State *Francis Fukuyama, Why Did Democracy Spread? *Cornel West, The Deep Democratic Tradition in America Benazir Bhutto, Islam and Democracy Reflections on the Nature of Government PART TWO: CULTURE Some Considerations about the Nature of Culture Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex Carl Jung, The Personal and the Collective Unconscious Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare's Sister Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail *Frantz Fanon, On Violence *Barbara Ehrenreich, Is the Middle Class Doomed? Reflections on the Nature of Culture PART THREE: WEALTH Some Considerations about the Nature of Wealth *Adam Smith, The Value of Labor Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth F.A. Hayek, Economic Control and Totalitarianism Robert Reich, Why the Rich Get Rich and the Poor Get Poorer *Robin Kimmerer, The Gift of the Strawberry *Dambisa Moyo, Economic Growth Matters to Ordinary People Reflections on the Nature of Wealth PART FOUR: EDUCATION Some Considerations about the Nature of Education *Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, Of the Education of Children *Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method *Diane Ravitch, The Essentials of a Good Education *Marilynne Robinson, What Are We Doing Here? *Howard Gardner, A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences *Martha Nussbaum, Education for Democracy *Bell Hooks, Educating Women Reflections on the Nature of Education PART FIVE: ETHICS Some Considerations about the Nature of Ethics Aristotle, The Aim of Man Hsun Tzu, Man's Nature is Evil *W. E. B. Du Bois, The Soul of White Folks *Mary Midgely, Trying Out One's Sword *Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices Michael Gazzaniga, Toward a Universal Ethics *Kwame Anthony Appiah, If You're Happy and You Know It Reflections on the Nature of Ethics PART SIX: GENDER Some Considerations about the Nature of Gender Mary Wollstonecraft, Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society Karen Horney, The Distrust Between the Sexes *Simone De Beauvoir, If Man and Woman Were Equal *Judith Lorber, Paradoxes of Gender *Molly Haskell, Who Has It Better, Men or Women? *Catherine A. MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment: Its First Decade in Court Judith Butler, From Undoing Gender Reflections on the Nature of Gender PART SEVEN: SCIENCE Some Considerations about the Nature of Science Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Francis Bacon, The Four Idols Charles Darwin, Natural Selection *Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure Michio Kaku, The Theory of the Universe? *Ruth Moore, Evolution Revised *James Gleick, What Is Time? Reflections on the Nature of Science Acknowledgements Index of Rhetorical Terms

SynopsisThe first and bestselling reader of its kind, A World of Ideas engages students with the big ideas that have shaped society and are reshaping it today. Readings by essential authors - from Aristotle and Mary Wollstonecraft to bell hooks and Marilynne Robinson - help students trace the origins of central cultural concepts and respond to them. A World of Ideas asks such crucial questions as, What defines good government? What forces shape our society? What does it mean to be educated? A World of Ideas helps students respond to these questions by providing the guidance they need to understand, analyze, and write. Substantial, supportive apparatus helps students focus on both the content of the readings as well as the rhetorical moves that writers use to achieve their purposes, providing instruction and models as students join in the important conversations continuing today. New chapters on Education and Gender, and new readings throughout, speak to today's urgent concerns. Improved writing instruction includes more scaffolding and examples that provide greater support for students.

LC Classification NumberPE1417.W65 2020