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

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

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Author: Bruce S. Thornton
Page Count: 373 pages
Published Date: 01 Sep 2001
Publisher: Isi Books
Publication Country: Wilmington, United States
Language: English
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781882926541
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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 beleagured 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. They 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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