The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose
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Book Description
This collection aims at cultivating and enlightening our philanthropic imagination. Addressing us all as philanthropists, present and future--as human beings who give and serve, seeking to promote the well being of others--its readings lead us to the basic issues we must ponder if we are to wield our philanthropic powers well: Why should I give? How should I give? To whom or for what should I give? What should I give? Can giving be taught?
About the Author
Amy A. Kass is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. An award winning teacher, she has for over twenty- five years taught classic texts of literature and philosophy to college students. Looking beyond the academy, she has directed seminars, nation-wide, to help people think about the why and wherefore of their own civic and philanthropic activities. She is the author of two anthologies, American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction, and Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Leon Kass).
The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose,Amy A. Kass,Indianapolis University Press,0253215420,Conduct of life,General,Generosity,Literary collections,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Volunteer Work,Collections & anthologies of various literary forms,Cultural studies
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