The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today

by Eric Adler

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:019768081X

ISBN13:9780197680810

Release Date:December 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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