Leon Kass
Auteur de The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis
A propos de l'auteur
Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago.
Œuvres de Leon Kass
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (2000) — Directeur de publication — 127 exemplaires
Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics (2002) 77 exemplaires
What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (1747) — Directeur de publication — 44 exemplaires
Reproduction And Responsibility: The Regulation Of New Biotechnologies: A Report Of The President's Council On… (2004) 6 exemplaires
A conversation with Dr. Leon Kass : the ethical dimensions of in vitro fertilization, held on November 16, 1978 at the… (1979) 2 exemplaires
Hollingsworth Amicus Brief 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 549 exemplaires
The Neoconservative Imagination: Essays in Honor of Irving Kristol (1995) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1939-02-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- Harvard University (PhD | Biochemistry)
University of Chicago - Professions
- professor
- Organisations
- St. John's College
University of Chicago
American Enterprise Institute
President's Council on Bioethics - Prix et distinctions
- Jefferson Lecture (2009)
Irving Kristol Award (2012)
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,189
- Popularité
- #21,621
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 34
- Langues
- 1
Even the books I love seemed dull when presented in out of context fragments such as 'Anna Karenina' 'War and Peace,' Middlemarch,' and 'Kristin Lavransdatter.' I really didn't particularly agree with the commentary that preceded each passage and wasn't at all sure what the writers were getting at. I felt the commentary colored my thoughts and dictated to me what the original authors meant and derailed my engagement with the piece.
In any event, some excerpts were mind-numbingly dense and impenetrable. Some were short and not particularly effective in isolation at striking any cord of humanity. On the upside, some highlights that I had never encountered were 'Gullliver's Travels' Struldbruggs, Lori Moore's poignant and funny short story 'People Like That are the Only People Here,' and Walt Whitman's lovely 'I Sing the Body Electric.'
In the main, this cured me of the desire to re-live college as an English major. I am not sure I realized anything true about 'being human.' I think this is aimed at someone with less grey hair who has less life experience and less insight on humanity than I. No new territory for me and reading excerpts of great works with some learned person guiding your thinking is a pale and depressing subsitute for reading the real thing and letting it wash over you without instruction.… (plus d'informations)