Téléchargez le livre : The Battle of the Classics

The Battle of the Classics

How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

de

Éditeur :

Oxford University Press


Paru le : 2020-09-04



eBook Téléchargement , DRM LCP 🛈 DRM Adobe 🛈
Lecture en ligne (streaming)
9,42 €
Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Image Louise Reader présentation

Louise Reader

Lisez ce titre sur l'application Louise Reader.

badge apple Application Louise Reader
badge Android Application Louise Reader
Description
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics demonstrates the crucial downsides of contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents in its place a historically informed case for a different approach to rescuing the humanistic disciplines in higher education. It reopens the passionate debates about the classics that took place in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America as a springboard for crafting a novel foundation for the humanistic tradition. Eric Adler demonstrates that current defenses of the humanities rely on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of certain poorly defined skills such as "critical thinking." It criticizes this conventional approach, contending that humanists cannot hope to save their disciplines without arguing in favor of particular humanities content. As the uninspired defenses of the classical humanities in the late nineteenth century prove, instrumental apologetics are bound to fail. All the same, the book shows that proponents of the Great Books favor a curriculum that is too intellectually narrow for the twenty-first century. The Battle of the Classics thus lays out a substance-based approach to undergraduate education that will revive the humanities, even as it steers clear of overreliance on the Western canon. The book envisions a global humanities based on the examination of masterworks from manifold cultures as the heart of an intellectually and morally sound education.
Pages
288 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2020-09-04
Marque
Oxford University Press
EAN papier
9780197680810
EAN PDF
9780197518793
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
0
Taille du fichier
13691 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
9,42 €
EAN EPUB
9780197518809
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
0
Taille du fichier
1321 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
9,42 €
Eric Adler is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland and the author of The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today, Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond, and, Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography.

Suggestions personnalisées