Category Archives: Thomas, Laurence
Afro-American Culture, Literature, and Social Order, Part 2 of 6; Commentary on The Black Huddle
Houston Baker, Blyden Jackson, James Olney, and John Sekora discuss the major themes and aesthetic concerns that unify and divide black writers, and the effects of the emergence of African-American studies on both the academy and society as a whole. … Continue reading
Posted in Baker, Houston A., Episodes, Jackson, Blyden, Olney, James, Sekora, John, Thomas, Laurence
Tagged Literature, Racism, Writers - African-American
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Personality and Character, Ancient and Modern
Christopher Gill and Laurence Thomas talk about ways in which conceptions of personality and character today compare with such conceptions in antiquity, how modern notions of psychological or moral wholeness differ from the ancient Greeks’ concept of happiness, and how … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics, Psychology
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