Apples Of Gold In Pictures Of Silver

Introduction: The Career Of Leon Kass
Harvey Flaumenhaft
Chapter 1: The Homecoming Of Penelope
Amy Kass
Chapter 2: The World Through Ben’s Bifocals
Ralph Lerner
Chapter 3: Medicalizing Childhood
Gilbert Meilaender
Chapter 4: Washington Square
Harvey C. Mansfield
Chapter 5: The Silence Of The Spartan
Harvey Flaumenhaft
Chapter 6: Torah Transformed
Michael Fishbane
Chapter 7: Leon Kass And The Poets
Paul McHugh
Chapter 8: Toward A Richer Public Bioethics
Rebecca Dresser
Chapter 9: Philosophic Anthropology In Rousseau And Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Nelson Lund
Chapter 10: Self-knowledge And Moral Seriousness In Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice
Adam Schulman
Chapter 11: From Hearth-Fires To Hell-Fires
Diana Schaub
Chapter 12: Fraternity In Antigone
Paul Ludwig
Chapter 13: Children Of Skeptics
Thomas W. Merrill
Chapter 14: The God-Seeking Animal
Eric Cohen
Chapter 15: The Traditional Animal
Yuval Levin
Courses Taught By Leon R. Kass

Published Writings Of Leon R. Kass

Additional Info
Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades-as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass’s admirers, including students, colleagues, and friends, honor his work by reflecting on the broad range of subjects to which he has devoted his life’s work. Some of the essays offer interpretations of great works of literature and philosophy from Homer, Sophocles, and Plato to Rousseau, Franklin, Jane Austen, Hawthorne, and Henry James. Others examine the significance of Leon Kass’s work as a bioethicist and Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics and as an interpreter of the Book of Genesis. The essays collected in Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver offer a sense of the breadth of Kass’s interests and insights and of the influence he has had on generations of scholars. The reader is further acquainted with the career of Leon R. Kass by a biographical introduction and a comprehensive listing of his published writings and the courses he has taught.

List of Contributors
Eric Cohen, Rebecca Dresser, Michael Fishbane, Harvey Flaumenhaft, Amy Kass, Ralph Lerner, Yuval Levin, Paul Ludwig, Nelson Lund, Harvey C. Mansfield, Paul McHugh, Gilbert Meilaender, Thomas W. Merrill, Diana Schaub, Adam Schulman