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- catalog abstract ""In Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, Hanson, Heath, and Thornton begin by unsparingly documenting the degeneration of classics. They also reveal the root causes of this decline. They point to academics themselves - their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized, inaccessible work, among other things - as the source of the crisis, and call for a return to "academic populism," a method charaterized by approachable writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.". "The authors lay out detailed proposals to arrest the decline in humane learning. These proposals, and especially their call for professors to embrace academic populism, merit a fair and widespread hearing. Bonfire of the Humanities should be read by anyone interested in a sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the root problems afflicting academia and the necessary measures to effect recovery."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Rescuing the classics in an impoverished age".
- catalog contributor b12145218.
- catalog contributor b12145219.
- catalog contributor b12145220.
- catalog contributor b12145221.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, Hanson, Heath, and Thornton begin by unsparingly documenting the degeneration of classics. They also reveal the root causes of this decline. They point to academics themselves - their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized, inaccessible work, among other things - as the source of the crisis, and call for a return to "academic populism," a method charaterized by approachable writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.".".
- catalog description ""The authors lay out detailed proposals to arrest the decline in humane learning. These proposals, and especially their call for professors to embrace academic populism, merit a fair and widespread hearing. Bonfire of the Humanities should be read by anyone interested in a sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the root problems afflicting academia and the necessary measures to effect recovery."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "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 postmodern clerks" / Bruce S. Thornton -- 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index (p. [359]-373).".
- catalog extent "xx, 373 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Bonfire of the humanities.".
- catalog identifier "1882926544".
- catalog isFormatOf "Bonfire of the humanities.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books,".
- catalog relation "Bonfire of the humanities.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Classical education United States.".
- catalog subject "Education, Humanistic United States.".
- catalog subject "LC1011 .H257 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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 postmodern clerks" / Bruce S. Thornton -- 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.".
- catalog title "Bonfire of the humanities : rescuing the classics in an impoverished age / Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S. Thornton.".
- catalog title "Rescuing the classics in an impoverished age".
- catalog type "text".