Selected Writings of Richard McKeon Paperback
McKeon, Zahava K./ Swenson, William G./ Booth, Way | Chicago
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Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear onmore standardways of thinking and learning. Aclassicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts.Together, the writings in this book show how McKeon reinvented the ancient arts of rhetoric, grammar, logic, and dialectic for the new circumstances of a global culture.In essays oncreation andcriticism, for instance, rhetoric is distinguished from grammarand shown to be the master art of invention, judgment,and pluralistic interpretation. Writings onthemes of culture, meanwhile,explore the self-invention of mankind as justification for the arts, the development of the humanities, andthe organization of the sciences.In the closingessays on education and philosophy, McKeon considers the implications ofhis ideas forthe future of the liberal arts and higher learning.
