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ISBN# 978-0-945159-49-0
The Civically Engaged Reader assembles more than forty provocative
and diverse readings that range across literature, philosophy, and
religion. These selections invite reflection on all kinds of
civic-minded activities-from giving and serving to leading and
associating-and on the vital connections between thought and service.
The selections in The Civically Engaged Reader will stimulate both
individual contemplation and lively group discussion and debate.
Appendixes with questions for discussion and tips for making those
discussions meaningful make this anthology a ready-to-go resource for
service and volunteer groups, as well as college classrooms.
The Civically Engaged Reader is edited by Adam Davis and Elizabeth Lynn and
published by the Great Books Foundation with support from the Project on
Civic Reflection.
The Civically Engaged Reader table of contents:
PART I: ASSOCIATING
- Selection from Politics
- Aristotle
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Constantine Cavafy
- I Shall Not Beg for my Rights
- Henry MacNeal Turner
- The Boy Without a Flag
- Abraham Rodriguez Jr.
- They'll Say, "She Must Be from Another Country"
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Fellowship
- Franz Kafka
- Earliest Impressions
- Jane Addams
- He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded
- Alden Nowlan
- Selection from The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Adam Smith
- Selection from Democracy in America
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Selection from The Souls of Black Folk
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Theme for English B
- Langston Hughes
- Recitatif
- Toni Morrison
- Mending Wall
- Robert Frost
PART II: SERVING
- Luella Miller
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Dry Dock
- Margaret Sutherland
- Saving the Crippled Boy
- Jan Beatty
- The Eleventh
- Henri Barbusse
- The Moral Equivalent of War
- William James
- The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements
- Jane Addams
- The Drum Major Instinct
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Book of Ruth, Selection from Specimen Days
- Walt Whitman
- The Lovers of the Poor
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service
- Adam Davis
PART III: GIVING
Where Were We
Dave Eggers
Selection from The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Sweetness of Charity
Maya Angelou
The Lamb and the Pinecone
Pablo Neruda
The Gospel of Wealth, Part I
Andrew Carnegie
Selection from "Self-Reliance"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
Sogyal Rinpoche
A Bed for the Night
Bertolt Brecht
Four Traditions of Philanthropy
Elizabeth Lynn and D. Susan Wisely
Selection from the Mishneh Torah
If All Who Have Begged Help
Anna Akhmatova
PART IV: LEADING
- The Wife of His Youth
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- II Samuel, Chapters 11-12
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- The Destructors
- Graham Greene
- The Helmsman
- Franz Kafka
- The Lesson
- Toni Cade Bambara
- The Use of Force
- William Carlos Williams
- Selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- The History Teacher
- Billy Collins
- Second Inaugural Address
- Abraham Lincoln
- The Minister's Black Veil
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
APPENDIXES
- Appendix A
- A Brief Guide to Reading and Discussion Programs for Service Volunteers
Appendix B
Questions for Discussion
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