Adventures in the Human Spirit, 5/E
Philip E. Bishop, Valencia Community College

ISBN-10: 0132244594
ISBN-13: 9780132244596

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 480 pp
Published: 03/15/2007

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For a one semester survey course in Introduction to Humanities.

 

This single-volume text is a historical survey of the western humanities. Written to be accessible to students with little background in the arts and humanities,  Adventure in the Human Spirit  provides a balanced introduction to the major arts, philosophy, and religion. This text approaches the humanities by focusing on principal events, styles, movements, and figures, bringing the past to life.

 

How do you engage your students with the diverse material in a humanities course?

 

  • Global Perspectives boxes highlight connections between Western and global cultures and provide global context for developments in Western societies,
  • Quotable Quotes are excerpts from literature and philosophy, framing discussion of historical moments that expose students to literature in an accessible, compelling format.
  • Windows on Daily Life sections familiarizes students with individuals' experiences and facets of daily life from different historical periods.

How do you ensure that your students learn think critically about the material in your course?

  • Critical thinking activities help students make aesthetic and philosophical judgments, synthesize and compare topics, and discover the humanities’ rich connection to their own lives.

How do your students prepare for exams?

  • Key Concepts Boxes provide students with important definitions of abstract ideas in historical context and links to contemporary life.
  • Key Topics begin each chapter, giving students an overview of information to follow and focuses students' attention on important concepts.

  • NEW Global Perspective Boxes:
    • Great Zimbabwe (Chapter 8)
    • Gandhi and Colonial Liberation (Chapter 15)
  • Two new sections of Music (Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic Age)
  • New Content — updated throughout to include key works that are important to the teaching of the course:

 

  • Updated topics and sections: 
    • Acropolis
    • Unicorn Tapestry
    • Myth
    • The ancient Americas
    • Classical Greek art
    • Hellenistic science
    • Cicero
    • Plotinus and Neoplatonism
    • Hiberno-Saxon and Nordic cultures
    • Erigena and Christian Neoplatonism
    • International Gothic
    • Tapestry in the Renaisssance
    • Borromini and the Counter-Reformation Baroque
    • Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
    • The Rococo in Britain
    • Frida Kahlo
    • W.E.B. DuBois
    • Faith Ringgold's story quilts
    • Xu Bing, Chinese avant-garde artist

Chapter 1: The Humanities: An Introduction to Adventure

 

Chapter 2: The Ancient World

 

Chapter 3: Ancient Greece:  The Classical Spirit

 

Chapter 4: Ancient Rome: The Spirit of Empire

 

Chapter 5: The Spirit of Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam

 

Chapter 6: The Early Middle Ages: The Feudal Spirit

 

Chapter 7: The Late Middle Ages: The Gothic Awakening

 

Chapter 8:  The Renaissance Spirit in Italy

 

Chapter 9:  Reformation and Late Renaissance

 

Chapter 10:  The Spirit of Baroque

 

Chapter 11: The Spirit of Enlightenment

 

Chapter 12: Revolution and Romanticism

 

Chapter 13: The Industrial Age: The Spirit of Materialism

 

Chapter 14: The Spirit of Modernism

 

Chapter 15: The Contemporary Spirit 

    For a one-/two- semester survey course in Introduction to Humanities.

    Exceptionally student-friendly, extensively illustrated, and engagingly thought-provoking, this one-volume historical survey of the humanities is accessible—and inviting—to students with little background in the arts and humanities. Carefully balanced among the major arts, philosophy, and religion and finely focused on selected principal events, styles, movements, and figures, it brings the past to life by including authentic documents from daily life, comparative global perspectives, and examples from literature, philosophy, music—including the contributions of women and minority artists. A wealth of critical thinking, writing, and discussion activities helps students make aesthetic and philosophical judgments, synthesize and compare topics, and discover the humanities' rich connections to their own lives.

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