Perspectives: Art, Science and Spirituality

Lee Honors College, Western Michigan University
Dr. Lynn Underwood, Adjunct Professor
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Required books:

The Book of Qualities, J. Ruth Gendler
Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization, Thomas Hoving
    This book out of print. 4-5 copies will be on reserve in the library.
Risking Everything, Roger Housden
Descent into Hell, Charles Williams
What Is This Thing Called Science?, A. F. Chalmers
    On reserver in library/excerpts in coursepack
Coursepack
    Articles from Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, New Scientist, Trends in Cognitive Science, Chronicle of Higher Education, Atlantic Monthly and various social science journals. Also selected poems and quotations.

Additional bibliography:

There is no need to purchase the books below, but they are a selection of good books to be drawn on in the course and to follow up with ideas from the course

Descartes' Error, Antonio Damasio, M.D.
The Redress of Poetry, Seamus Heaney
The Way of Chuang Tzu, Thomas Merton
Sadhana: A Way to God, by Antony de Mello
Book of Luminous Things, Czeslaw Milosz
The Tolkein Reader, J. R. Tolkein
Living from the Heart, Puran Bair
French Cooking in 10 Minutes, de Pomaine
Practical Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill (available on-line)
The Essential Rumi, trans Coleman Barks
Time, ed Katinka Ridderbos
Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust
Tales from Two Pockets, Karel Capek
Traitor's Purse, Margery Allingham
The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis
Altruism and Altruistic Love, ed. Post, Underwood, Schloss and Hurlbut
The Natural Way to Draw, Kimon Nicolaides
Hidden Beauty, Microworlds Revealed, Frances Bourely
The Inner Self, Hubert van Zeller
Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation, Josef Pieper



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