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

Author:: Hanson, Victor Davis
Additional Titles:: Rescuing the classics in an impoverished age
Published:: Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2001.
Physical Description:: 373 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Heath, John and Thornton, Bruce S.

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Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Academic populism and the assault on the classics -- Part I: What we should not be and not do. Cultivating sophistry / Bruce S. Thornton -- Socrates redux: classics in the multicultural university / John Heath -- Part II: Very bad theory. More quarreling in the muses' birdcage / John Heath -- Too much ego in your cosmos / Victor Davis Hanson -- The enemy is us: the "betrayal of the postmodem clerks" / Bruce S. Thorton -- Part III: Elitists, careerists, and assorted opportunists. Self-promotion and the "crisis" in classics / John Heath -- Who killed Homer?: the prequel -- Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath -- The twilight of the professors / Bruce S. Thornton -- Not the unabomber / John Heath.

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ISBN:

1882926544

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-358) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

University Park copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment Fund; 20020910.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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