Author: Caroline Winterer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878893
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broader study of civilization, persuasively arguing that we cannot understand both the rise of the American university and modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.
The Culture of Classicism
Author: Caroline Winterer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878893
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broader study of civilization, persuasively arguing that we cannot understand both the rise of the American university and modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878893
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broader study of civilization, persuasively arguing that we cannot understand both the rise of the American university and modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.
The Williams Quarterly
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Bulletin
Author: University of South Carolina
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Climbing Parnassus
Author: Tracy Lee Simmons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516056
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages constitutes a bracing reminder of the genuine aims of a truly liberal education.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684516056
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Climbing Parnassus, winner of the 2005 Paideia Prize, Tracy Lee Simmons presents a defense and vindication of the formative power of Greek and Latin. He also shows how these languages have played a crucial role in the development of authentic Humanism, the foundation of the West's cultural order and America's understanding of itself as a union of citizens. Simmons's persuasive witness to the unique, now all-but-forgotten advantages of study in and of the classical languages constitutes a bracing reminder of the genuine aims of a truly liberal education.
The Oracle
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Oriental and Linguistic Studies ...: The Veda. The Avesta. The science of language
Author: William Dwight Whitney
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
The Relative Importance of Ancient and Modern Languages
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Category : Language and education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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Category : Language and education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Oriental and Linguistic Studies
Author: William Dwight Whitney
Publisher:
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Category : Indo-Aryan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
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Category : Indo-Aryan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: National Catholic Educational Association
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Category : Catholic schools
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Nov. issue includes Proceedings of the annual meeting.
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Category : Catholic schools
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Nov. issue includes Proceedings of the annual meeting.