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Bonfire of the Humanities : Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newburyport :
Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781497651609 1497651603 |