Bonfire of the Humanities
Rescuing The Classics In An Impoverished Age
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With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central if beleagured discipline -- classics -- and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves -- their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things -- as the progenitors of the crisis. They call for a return to "academic populism, " an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.
Category: Classical Studies
Code: 10434
ISBN:
9781882926541
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
373
Publication Date:
2001
Publisher:
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Published In:
USA
Language:
English