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Hanson Victor Davis |
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Bonfire of the humanities : rescuing the classics in an impoverished age / / Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath and Bruce S. Thornton |
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Wilmington, DE : , : ISI Books, , [2001] |
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©2001 |
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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Education, Humanistic - United States |
Classical education - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Machine generated contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Academic Populism and the Assault on the Classics -- PART i: What We Should Not Be and Not Do -- i. Cultivating Sophistry -- Brnce S Thomrton -- 2. Socrates Redux: Classics in the Multicultural University? -- John Heath -- PART II: Very Bad Theory -- 3. More Quarreling in the Muses' Birdcage -- John Heath -- 4. "Too Much Ego in Your Cosmos" -- Victor Davis Hanson -- 5: The Enemy Is Us: The "Betrayal of the Postmodem Clerks" -- Bruce S. Thorton -- PART III: Elitists, Careerists, and Assorted Opportunists -- 6. Sef-Promotion and the "Crisis" in Classics -- John Heath -- Who Killed Homer?: The Prequel -- Victor Davis Hanson i John Heath -- 8. The Twilight of the Professors , -- Bruce S. Thornton -- I aPLOCuE: Not the Unabomber -- iJohn HeathH -- lloTE5 -- NOEO -- BOT THE AUTHORS -- f0'$4090I I:1: l. |
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