Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education

by James S. Taylor

Overview

Reveals the neglected mode of knowing and learning, from Socrates to the middle ages and beyond, that relies more on the integrated powers of sensory experience and intuition, rather than on modern narrow scientific models of education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791435861
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	12/18/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

James S. Taylor has been a teacher of English and American literature, Humanities, Western Civilization, and Philosophy of Education, for over twenty years, in private schools and public colleges.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The Validity of Poetic Knowledge

2 The Philosophical Foundations of Poetic Knowledge

3 Connatural, Intentional, and Intuitive Knowledge

4 Descartes and the Cartesian Legacy

5 Voices for Poetic Knowledge after Descartes

6 Poetic Knowledge and the Integrated Humanities Program

7 The Future of the Poetic Mode of Knowledge in Education

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

"There are relatively few persons who can analyze as clearly and as lucidly the writings of Aristotle, Plato, and Acquinas as does this author. Like Taylor's educational philosophy, he seeks to move his readers' affections and will as well as their intellects, and he does this successfully." -- Richard Harp, University of Nevada

"With pithy brevity he has managed to provide both a history of the treatment of poetic knowledge and to develop his own very persuasive account." -- Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

From the Publisher

Contrasting academic and cultural approaches to education based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, recovers a knowledge of the senses and passions from a period before the Reformation and Renaissance when it predominated after being developed over thousands of years. Puts the case for the validity of poetic knowledge, then explores the philosophical foundations, intention and intuition, Descartes and his legacy, later voices for poetic knowledge, the integrated humanities program, and the future of the poetic mode in education. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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