Bonfire of the Humanities

Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age

Biography & Memoir, Political
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Author: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S Thornton ISBN: 9781497651609
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD) Publication: May 27, 2014
Imprint: Intercollegiate Studies Institute Language: English
Author: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S Thornton
ISBN: 9781497651609
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD)
Publication: May 27, 2014
Imprint: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Language: English

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.

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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.

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