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Bonfire of the Humanities : Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : ISI Books, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781497651609
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bonfire of the HumanitiesDDC classification:
  • 370.11/2/0973
LOC classification:
  • LC1011 .H367 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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