
Title
´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Frontier Lectures in Liberal Arts Watakushi tachi wa donoyouna sekai wo souzou subekika (How Should We Imagine the Future World?)
Size
360 pages, 127x188mm
Language
Japanese
Released
May 31, 2021
ISBN
9784798701806
Published by
Transview
Book Info
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This book is a reprint of a series of lectures that was compiled after reorganizing the content of the lectures from “Towards the World in 30 Years’ Time — Thinking about the Future of the ‘World’ and ‘Humans’,” which were part of the ‘Academic Frontier Lecture Series’ in the spring semester of AY2020 of the University of Tokyo’s East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts (EAA). The content of the lectures was restructured based on a question-and-answer session with the students. The EAA was developed as a joint program in 2019 between the University of Tokyo and Peking University with the aim to build a field of “East Asian Liberal Arts” from the dual perspectives of research and education. These omnibus lectures were designed to inform the first- and second-year undergraduate students about the new approach to liberal arts that the EAA strives to undertake.
There are many possible answers to the question “What is liberal arts?”. At EAA, we consider liberal arts to comprise of the art of learning that we can practice to get involved in the world, while effectuating the changes in ourselves in a world that often changes in an uncertain manner. Therefore, I think that rather than focusing on knowing something, liberal arts can be considere