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

The battle of the classics how a nineteenth-century debate can save the humanities today

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Adler, Eric, 1973- autor (autor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press [2020]
Subjects:
Educación humanista > Estados Unidos
Humanidades > Estudio y enseñaza (Superior) > Estados Unidos.
Conflicto cultural > Estados Unidos.
Enseñanza superior > Estados Unidos > s. XIX-XX.
See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004323469708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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