CREATIVE SUBVERSION
The Liberal Arts and Human Educational Fulfilment
Edited by David Daintree
with papers by Iain T. Benson, Kevin Donnelly, Jim Gaston, Gary
Johns, Philippa Martyr, Paul Morrissey, Julie Rimes, Karl Schmude,
Steven Schwartz, John Simons
Paperback, 208 pages, $29.95
ISBN: 9781925826005
RELEASE MONTH: JUNE 2018
The mushrooming of human knowledge has given rise in our schools and
universities, particularly in our arts faculties, to a post-modern
despair of ever finding objective truth, spawning a nebula of petty and
unrelated subjects driven by the ephemeral fancies of the day.
At the third annual Colloquium of the Christopher Dawson Centre for
Cultural Studies, in June 2017, distinguished speakers explored the
theme of Education, with a particular focus on liberal education as the
proper basis not just for a career in the workforce but (ultimately of
far greater importance) for a rich and fulfilling life. This volume
contains the full text of their papers.
Contents
Foreword Archbishop -- Julian Porteous
Introduction -- David Daintree
1. “Values Language”: A Cuckoo’s Egg or Useful Moral Framework? -- Iain T. Benson
2. Education and the Culture of Freedom -- Kevin Donnelly
3. Liberal Education and the Good Life: Christopher Dawson and the
Role of Human Migration and Diffusion in the Life and Study of Culture
-- Jim Gaston
4. How the Postmodern Mindset is Destroying Modern Minds -- Gary Johns
5. Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off? God, Truth and Buckminster Fuller -- Philippa Martyr
6. Reclaiming Wisdom: St Thomas Aquinas and the Integration of Knowledge -- Paul Morrissey
7. Kaisu: Learning Communities in the Shadow of the Innovative Economy -- Julie Rimes
8. The Future of Learning: The Role of the Independent Scholar -- Karl Schmude
9. Knowledge Without Wisdom -- Steven Schwartz
10. How the Arts Lost the Culture War -- John Simons
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