DOWNLOADS Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education by John T. Hamilton

Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education by John T. Hamilton

• Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education
• John T. Hamilton
• Page: 144
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9780226818634
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Download eBook

Online books downloadable Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education in English by John T. Hamilton

Overview

A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.   In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn’s portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment.   The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data, statistical reasoning, and presumably neutral abstraction, which often dismiss humanist subjectivity, legitimize self-sufficiency, and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today, he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal, ethical, and political complacency in our present era.  

Download more ebooks: [PDF/Kindle] Escort Me Tome 1 by Elena May link, {epub download} Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk by Robert Kershaw, Robert Kershaw download link, LA VIEJA SIRENA ePub gratis read pdf, [Pdf/ePub] L'Inamour by Bénédicte Heim download ebook pdf, SEMILLAS ZEN: REFLEXIONES DE UNA MONJA ZEN leer pdf download link, [download pdf] My Isekai Life 01: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World! by site, DOWNLOADS Blue Beam Project A Zionists-Illuminatis Advanced Weapon In the 21st Century here, Read [Pdf]> Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year by Rochelle Bilow, Rochelle Bilow download pdf, DOWNLOAD [PDF] {EPUB} Petit guide de (sur)vie pour éco-anxieux pdf, [PDF EPUB] Download Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare Full Book here, EL BOSQUE DE LOS CUATRO VIENTOS leer el libro pdf site,