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Modern
Resources
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Introduction |
Definitions &
Characteristics of Modernity
Modernity &
Visualizing the Person
Aspects of Various Periods in the Western
Tradition
Internet
Modern History Resources (website) |
Imperialism-WWI |
Complete Poems of Rudyard Kipling (website)
Images of Imperialism
Euro-American Colonial Expansion
World War I Key Events
Additional World War I Maps
In Flanders Field: First World War Poetry, Experience, and Worldview |
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Chesterton
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Chesterton's
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908): Heresy, Anarchy, Madness, Egoism
Three Rival Methods
of Pursuing Truth
The Man Who
Was Thursday & the Problem
of Evil
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Freud
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A Biblical Model of Personhood
Introduction
to Freud's Theory (website)
Group Psychology
and the Analysis of the Ego
The Future of Freud's
De/Il-lusions
Utopian Dreams
& Pessimistic Distrust in Freud's Hopes for Science
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Dawson |
Overview of Argument for Progress and Religion Chapters 1 thru 3
Additional Questions for Progess and Religion |
Lewis |
An Allegorical Apology: C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933) |
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WWII,
Wiesel,
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World War II
Key Events
Timeline
of the Holocaust (weblink)
Jewish Views
of the
Holocaust
Christian
Responses to the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel on
Memory, Prayer, Protest, Suffering, and God
Elie Wiesel's
Night: Discussion Questions
Elie
Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (website)
"Hope,
Despair, and Memory" (Elie Wiesel's 1986 Noble Prize Lecture)
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Bonhoeffer
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The
Barmen Declaration
An Overview of the Ethics
of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Eliot
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Life
of T.S. Eliot (website)
Eliot on Tradition, Poetry,
Faith, and Culture
The Structure of The Four Quartets
Burnt Norton Commentary
East Coker Commentary
The Dry Salvages Commentary
Little Gidding Commentary
Tradition and Eternity in Little Gidding
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Malruax
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Introduction
to Malraux
André Malraux &
The Antagonism of Art
Picasso's Mask:
Discussion Questions
Introduction
to Picasso with Style Periods
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Arendt |
The Active Life and the Human Condition
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H. Richard Niebuhr |
Ethics and History in Niebuhr's Christ and Culture |
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Wittgenstein
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Introduction
to Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Historical
Background
Wittgenstein's
Philosophical Investigations: A Basic Introduction
Assessing the
Investigation: Wittgenstein's Silence and Action Before Ethics and God
Commentary
on the First 100 Investigations (Lois Shawver)
Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus (hypertext edition)
Lecture
on Ethics
Lectures
on Philosophy 1932-1935
On
Cetainity
Wittgenstein
Links (metalinks page)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Letter from a Birmingham Jail Overview
A Call for Unity Text and Background |
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Kuhn
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Brief
Notes Toward Understanding Kuhn's Importance
Model-Based Reasoning & Thomas Kuhn
Overview & Questions on Thomas
Kuhn's 1969 Postscript to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Post-Kuhnian
Models of the Practice of Science
The Scientific Method: An Overview
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Cold War
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Akhmatova, Requiem (Version
1, Version
2)
Sufffering, the
Cross, and Remembrance
Virtual
Museum of Political Art |
Late Modern/ Post-Modern Authors |
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Soyinka
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The Problem of Cultural Representation
Colonialism and Christianity Biblical Theology and Post-Colonialism
(Optional readings if interested) Soyinka, Ogun, and Christ
in Death and the King's Horseman |
Dillard |
Seeing and Stalking the Action of Creation
The Problem of Natural Evil |
Havel |
Havel and Personal Responsibility
Havel and The Power of the Powerless |
MacIntyre |
After Virtue Outline and Commentary
Ethics along the Lines of Ontology and Epistemology |
Walcott |
Introduction to Walcott
The Muse of History
"Fragments of the Antilles" (optional) & outline
Introduction to Omeros
Outline of Omeros, Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six , Seven
Omeros: Caribbean Epic?
Questions about Omeros' General
Message
Omeros' Diverse View of History |
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Pamuk
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Empires
of the Middle East (moving graphic)
"My
Father's Suitcase" (Nobel Lecture)
"Freedom
to Write" (PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture)
"The
Anger of the Damned" (Response to 9/11)
Author
Website
Windows into Pamuk's Hüzün |