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The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today
Adler, Eric (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland)
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today
Adler, Eric (Associate Professor of Classics, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland)
This book analyzes crucial episodes in the history of American higher education in order to discover the best way to rescue the humanities. It urges apologists to stop focusing on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of poorly defined skills and envisions a globalized approach to education based on humanistic masterworks.
272 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 16, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9780197518786 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 236 × 155 × 28 mm · 522 g |