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- 题名/责任者:
- The battle of the classics : how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today / Eric Adler.
- 出版发行项:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- 出版发行项:
- ? 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780197518786
- 载体形态项:
- x, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- 其他载体形态:
- Online version: Adler, Eric, The battle of the classics First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780197518809
- 个人责任者:
- Adler, Eric, 1973- author.
- 附加团体名称:
- Oxford University Press.
- 论题主题:
- Classical education-United States.
- 论题主题:
- Education, Humanistic-United States.
- 论题主题:
- Culture conflict-United States.
- 中图法分类号:
- G571.2
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- 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.
- 摘要附注:
- "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"--
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