The battle of the classics [electronic resource] : how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today

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서명/저자사항	The battle of the classics [electronic resource]: how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today / Eric Adler.
개인저자	Adler, Eric, 1973- author.
단체저자명	Oxford University Press.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2020]
형태사항	1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
ISBN	9780197518816 0197518818 019751880X 9780197518793 0197518796 9780197518809
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction: The sick man of American higher education -- Skills are the new Canon -- From the Studia Humanitatis to the modern humanities -- A college Fetich? -- Darwin meets the curriculum -- Humanism vs. humanitarianism -- Toward a truly ecumenical wisdom.
요약	"The Battle of the Classics criticizes contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents a historically informed case for a decidedly different approach to rescuing the humanistic disciplines in American higher education. It uses the so-called Battle of the Classics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a springboard for crafting a novel foundation for the humanistic tradition. The book argues that current defences of the humanities rely on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of certain poorly defined skills such as "critical thinking." It finds fault with this conventional approach, arguing that humanists cannot hope to save their disciplines without arguing in favour of particular humanities content. As the lacklustre defences of the classical humanities in the late nineteenth century help prove, instrumental apologetics are bound to fail. All the same, the book shows that proponents of the Great Books favour a curriculum that is too intellectually narrow for the twenty-first century. The Battle of the Classics thus lays out a substance-based approach to undergraduate education that will revive the humanities while steering clear of overreliance on the Western canon. The book envisions a global humanities based on the examination of masterworks from manifold cultures as the heart of an intellectually and morally sound education"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Classical education --United States. Education, Humanistic --United States. Culture conflict --United States.
분류기호(DDC)	370.1120973
언어	영어
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