Humanities in Dispute: A Dialogue in Letters - Hardcover

Sousa, Ronald W.; Weinsheimer, Joel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155753117X ISBN 13: 9781557531179

Verlag: Purdue University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Sousa Ronald W Wwisheimer Joel

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Reseña del editor:

The humanities are under attack from many sides: from conservatives who decry "political correctness" in the classroom; from liberals, who are impatient with the traditional curriculum; and from legislators and students, who are looking for relevance and marketable skills. Disturbed by these acrimonious arguments, the authors - former colleagues and university-press board members - embarked on an ambitious project to reexamine a number of major literary and philosophical works dealing with the liberal arts and education. With their discussions ranging from Plato to Rousseau, from Cicero to Vico, from Erasmus to Matthew Arnold, Sousa and Weinsheimer offer not a history of education philosophy but an examination of the present. They read these astonishingly diverse works with one question foremost: "Do our predecessors' reflections offer anything better in defense of humanities education than modern platitudes about 'broadening one's horizons'?"

Biografía del autor:

Ronald W. Sousa has authored or edited several books on Portuguese literature and literary criticism, such as The Rediscoverers: Major Figures in the Portuguese Literature of National Regeneration and Reading the Harper, and has also published a number of translations from Portuguese. Joel Weinsheimer has written a number of books on eighteenth-century British literature, literary theory, and philosophical hermeneutics, and has translated works by Hans-Georg Gadamer, among others.

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• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 155753117X
• ISBN 13: 9781557531179
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 217