Author: Georg Lukacs File Type: mobi Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukacs laid the groundwork for his later work in Marxist aesthetics, a field that introduced the historical and political implications of text.For this centennial edition, John T. Sanders and Katie Terezakis add a dialogue entitled On Poverty of Spirit, which Lukacs wrote at the time of Soul and Form, and an introduction by Judith Butler, which compares Lukacss key claims to his later work and subsequent movements in literary theory and criticism. In an afterword, Terezakis continues to trace the Lukacsian system within his writing and other fields. These essays explore problems of alienation and isolation and the curative quality of aesthetic form, which communicates both individuality and a shared human condition. They investigate the elements that give rise to form, the history that form implies, and the historicity that form embodies. Taken together, they showcase the breakdown, in modern times, of an objective aesthetics, and the rise of a new art born from lived experience.

Author: Sandra Goss-Lucas File Type: pdf Most new psychology instructors enter their first undergraduate classrooms with little or no formal preparation for their role as a teacher. The goal of this book is to review the body of teaching research that is available as well as some of the well-accepted lore, so as to make the first foray into teaching psychology a positive experience.Teaching Psychology outlines the major problems and issues confronting psychology teachers. It presents an overview of the nuts and bolts of teaching psychology including dealing with troubled and troubling students, choosing and using technology, developing evaluation instruments, and selecting methods for self-evaluation. Written by two award-winning psychology professors with over 50 years of combined teaching experience, the book offers a wide range of down-to-earth suggestions and immediately usable materials intended to help psychology teachers teach better and help students learn more.The chapters are organized to roughly parallel the sequence of tasks that new psychology teachers face, beginning with goal setting and ending with evaluation of ones teaching. Each chapter is chockfull of helpful tools including checklists, sample lecture notes, writing assignments, and grading criteria. To make it easier to customize this material, these tools are available on an accompanying CD along with a rating sheet for choosing a textbook, a student grade-record sheet, a sample statement on academic integrity and a pool of less-than-perfect test items to hone item-writing skills.This book offers guidelines for teaching such asullsetting goals in line with 10 basic principles of effective teachingllplanning the basics including choosing a text, writing a syllabus, and creating a grading systemllsetting a positive tone in the classroomllproviding tips on asking and answering questions, promoting critical thinking, and evaluating student performance.lulIntended for psychology graduate students who are learning to teach, faculty who train psychology instructors, and new psychology faculty at institutions ranging from high schools to universities, as well as experienced faculty wishing to hone their teaching skills.ReviewThe level of intellectual engagement and the means for delivering a very clear, compelling message is right on the money... Bill Buskist, Ph.D.Auburn University ...the book would be a good primary text for a TA training seminar.Jane Halonen, Ph.D.University of West Florida... this book has the potential to make a novel contribution because of its brevity and discipline-specific focus....Goss Lucas and Bernstein are well-qualified to author this text...the work is informed by current writings and research in the area.Steven Myers, Ph.D.Roosevelt University