The Battle of the Classics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of the Classics write by Eric Adler. This book was released on 2020-09-04. The Battle of the Classics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? 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 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." It criticizes this conventional approach, contending that humanists cannot hope to save their disciplines without arguing in favor of particular humanities content. As the uninspired defenses of the classical humanities in the late nineteenth century prove, instrumental apologetics are bound to fail. All the same, the book shows that proponents of the Great Books favor a curriculum that is too intellectually narrow for the twenty-first century. The Battle of the Classics thus lays out a substance-based approach to undergraduate education that will revive the humanities, even as it steers clear of overreliance on the Western canon. The book envisions a global humanities based on the examination of masterworks from manifold cultures as the heart of an intellectually and morally sound education.
The Battle of the Books
The Battle of the Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Battle of the Books write by Joseph M. Levine. This book was released on 1991. The Battle of the Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 1. Wotton vs. Temple -- 2. Bentley vs. Christ Church -- 3. Stroke and Counterstroke -- 4. The Querelle -- 5. Ancient Greece and Modern Scholarship -- 6. Pope's Iliad -- 7. Pope and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns -- 8. Bentley's Milton -- 9. History and Theory -- 10. Ancients -- 11. Moderns -- 12. Ancients and Moderns.
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Thirty Years War write by C. V. Wedgwood. This book was released on 2016-09-13. The Thirty Years War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
The Sling and the Stone
The Sling and the Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sling and the Stone write by Thomas X. Hammes. This book was released on 2006-02-17. The Sling and the Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 4GW (Fourth Generation Warfare) is the only kind of war America has ever lost. And we have done so three times – in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. This form of warfare has also defeated the French in Vietnam and Algeria, and the USSR in Afghanistan…As the only Goliath left in the world, we should be worried that the world’s Davids have found a sling and stone that work." – Chapter 1, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. The War in Iraq. The War on Terror. These types of "asymmetrical" warfare are the conflicts of the 21st century – and show how difficult it is for the world's remaining superpower to battle insurgents and terrorists who will fight unconventionally in the face of superior military power. This change in military conflict may seem sudden.
Invitation to the Classics
Invitation to the Classics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invitation to the Classics write by Louise Cowan. This book was released on 2006-08-01. Invitation to the Classics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Motivation and direction for reading and understanding the great authors and works of Western culture.
