The Battle of the Classics
The Battle of the Classics These are troubling days for the humanities. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? In response, a recent proliferation…
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The Battle of the Classics
These are troubling days for the humanities. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged.
It reopens the passionate debates about the classics that took place in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America as a springboard for crafting a novel foundation for the humanistic tradition.Eric Adler demonstrates that current defenses of the humanities rely on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of certain poorly defined skills such as critical thinking. The Battle of the Classics demonstrates the crucial downsides of contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents in its place a historically informed case for a different approach to rescuing the humanistic disciplines in higher education. It criticizes this conventional