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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...
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Newburyport :
Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: What We Should Not Be and Not Do; I. Cultivating Sophistry; 2. Socrates Redux: Classics in the Multicultural University?; PART II: Very Bad Theory; 3. More Quarreling in the Muses' Birdcage; 4. "Too Much Ego in Your Cosmos"; 5. The Enemy Is Us: The "Betrayal of the Postmodern Clerks"; PART III: Elitists, Careerists, and Assorted Opportunists; 6. Self-Promotion and the "Crisis" in Classics; 7. Who Killed Homer?: The Prequel; 8. The Twilight of the Professors; Epilogue; Notes; Index; About The Authors; Copyright. | |
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