Leon Sachs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leon Sachs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachs |
| SIGNATURE | SACHS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Does laïcité translate to the American classroom
This essay reflects on the relevance of French laïcité for the American college classroom. It begins with a discussion of philosopher Catherine Kintzler’s radical interpretation of laïcité as a theory of political association that takes the classroom as its model. According to this view, the autonomous learning contingent on doubt and self-correction that ideally occurs there is the basis for an egalitarian and collaborative production of knowled…
Reading laïcité
Beginning with the observation that in recent years laïcité has taken on connotations that its nineteenth-century republican proponents would not have foreseen, this article reflects on the way laïcité’s evolving meaning bears on questions of literary experience and literary education. It argues that there are important structural similarities between recent theories of laïcité and theories of literary reading, both of which rely on similar conce…
Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
Leon Sachs University of Kentucky Guiney, M. Martin. Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 288. As he explains in the preface, M. Martin Guiney's study of the teaching of literature under France's Third Republic is motivated by a desire to understand what he sees as a paradox at the core of the republican school, namely, the institution's "persistent authoritarian character" that exi…
Legislating the French Family
Putting History Into Practice
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Legislating the French Family
Putting History Into Practice
Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic
Leon Sachs University of Kentucky Guiney, M. Martin. Teaching the Cult of Literature in the French Third Republic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 288. As he explains in the preface, M. Martin Guiney's study of the teaching of literature under France's Third Republic is motivated by a desire to understand what he sees as a paradox at the core of the republican school, namely, the institution's "persistent authoritarian character" that exi…
Reading laïcité
Beginning with the observation that in recent years laïcité has taken on connotations that its nineteenth-century republican proponents would not have foreseen, this article reflects on the way laïcité’s evolving meaning bears on questions of literary experience and literary education. It argues that there are important structural similarities between recent theories of laïcité and theories of literary reading, both of which rely on similar conce…
Does laïcité translate to the American classroom
This essay reflects on the relevance of French laïcité for the American college classroom. It begins with a discussion of philosopher Catherine Kintzler’s radical interpretation of laïcité as a theory of political association that takes the classroom as its model. According to this view, the autonomous learning contingent on doubt and self-correction that ideally occurs there is the basis for an egalitarian and collaborative production of knowled…
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · French Literature and Criticism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works)