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Rescuing Socrates how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation
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| 서명/저자사항 | Rescuing Socrates : how the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation/ Roosevelt Monta?s. |
| 개인저자 | Monta?s, Roosevelt,author. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Monta?s, Roosevelt Rescuing Socrates Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2021 9780691200392 |
| ISBN | 9780691224381 0691224382 9780691234847 0691234841 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Introduction. The Case -- Chapter 1. Turning My Attention Back to Myself: Saint Augustine -- Chapter 2. The Examined Life: Socrates, Plato, and a Little Bit of Aristotle -- Chapter 3. Making Peace with the Unconscious: Freud -- Chapter 4. Truth Is God: Gandhi -- Epilogue. Nuts and Bolts. |
| 요약 | A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life--and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Monta?s tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities.Monta?s emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University's renowned Core Curriculum, one of America's last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career--he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia's Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college.Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors--Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi--had a profound impact on Monta?s's life. In doing so, the book drives home what it's like to experience a liberal education--and why it can still remake lives. |
| 주제명(개인명) | Monta?s, RooseveltBooks and reading. |
| 주제명(지명) | United States --Intellectual life. United States. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Education, Humanistic --United States. Books and reading --United States. Books and reading --United States --Sociological aspects. EDUCATION / Higher Books and reading. Books and reading --Sociological aspects. Education, Humanistic. Intellectual life. |
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