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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674735463
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world” in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Her vigorous defense of “the new education” is rooted in Seneca’s ideal of the citizen who scrutinizes tradition critically and who respects the ability to reason wherever it is found—in rich or poor, native or foreigner, female or male. Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education: critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research universities, small independent colleges, and religious institutions, she shows how these values are (and in some instances are not) being embodied in particular courses. She defends such burgeoning subject areas as gender, minority, and gay studies against charges of moral relativism and low standards, and underscores their dynamic and fundamental contribution to critical reasoning and world citizenship. For Nussbaum, liberal education is alive and well on American campuses in the late twentieth century. It is not only viable, promising, and constructive, but it is essential to a democratic society. Taking up the challenge of conservative critics of academe, she argues persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in higher education today.

Author: Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497651603
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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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 beleaguered, 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, and 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.

Author: Rossiter Johnson
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author: Ernst Hans Gombrich
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520061897
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Essays discuss Greek and Chineese art, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dutch genre painting, Rubens, Rembrandt, art collecting, museums, and Freud's aesthetics

Author: Rossiter Johnson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385237777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2148

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Author: Rossiter Johnson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385237785
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author: Seattle Public Library
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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