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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822438603321

Autore

Hanson Victor Davis

Titolo

Bonfire of the humanities : rescuing the classics in an impoverished age / / Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath and Bruce S. Thornton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wilmington, DE : , : ISI Books, , [2001]

©2001

ISBN

1-4976-5160-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Disciplina

370.112

Soggetti

Education, Humanistic - United States

Classical education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.