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Rescuing Socrates - How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Hardcover)
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Rescuing Socrates - How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 5 550
You Save R110 (17%)
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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 backgrounds What 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 Montas 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. Montas 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 Montas'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.
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