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Bonfire of the Humanities
Bruce S. Thornton
Victor Davis Hanson
John Heath
其他書名
Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age
出版
Open Road Media
, 2014-05-27
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Political
ISBN
1497651603
9781497651609
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nFyaAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.