Bonfire Of The Humanities
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Bonfire Of The Humanities
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Author : Bruce S. Thornton
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-05-27
Bonfire Of The Humanities written by Bruce S. Thornton and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other things—as the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to “academic populism,” an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.
Bonfire Of The Humanities
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Author : David Marc
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-01
Bonfire Of The Humanities written by David Marc and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This volume focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment-television and electronic media-and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. David Marc is as mad as hell about some things, and he's not going to take it any longer. He finds that most university humanities programs remain top-heavy with embittered careerists who would rather deny the evidence than admit that, with the rise and popular acceptance of mass media, their most cherished interests, their techniques, and skills have become archaic. New students are treated as if they read and write as often, and for the same purposes, as their counterparts before the rise of the television camera, telephone, and communications satellite. Professors get paid. Students receive diplomas. And yet, humanities courses are the joke of the campus. In analyzing the decline of the humanities on college campuses, Marc covers a wide range of issues, including political correctness, the growing tolerance of academic cheating, and institutionalized grade inflation.
The Bonfire Of The Vanities
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Author : Tom Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2002-02-21
The Bonfire Of The Vanities written by Tom Wolfe and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02-21 with Fiction categories.
Vintage Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, the #1 bestseller that will forever define late-twentieth-century New York style. "No one has portrayed New York Society this accurately and devastatingly since Edith Wharton" (The National Review) “A page-turner . . . Brilliant high comedy.” (The New Republic) Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him, licking their chops and giving us a gargantuan helping of the human comedy, of New York in the 1980s, a city boiling over with racial and ethnic hostilities and burning with the itch to Grab It Now. Wolfe's novel is a big, panoramic story of the metropolis that reinforces the author's reputation as the foremost chronicler of the way we live in America. Adapted to film in 1990 by director Brian De Palma, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman.
What S The News Nothing But Bonfires
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Author : Karen Lynn Kettner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
What S The News Nothing But Bonfires written by Karen Lynn Kettner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Futile Pleasures
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Author : Corey McEleney
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2017-01-02
Futile Pleasures written by Corey McEleney and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-02 with Social Science categories.
Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture whose defensive posture toward literature rivals and shapes our own. During the Renaissance, poets justified the value of their work on the basis of the notion that the purpose of poetry is to please and instruct, that it must be both delightful and useful. At the same time, many of these writers faced the possibility that the pleasures of literature may be in conflict with the demand to be useful and valuable. Analyzing the rhetoric of pleasure and the pleasure of rhetoric in texts by William Shakespeare, Roger Ascham, Thomas Nashe, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton, McEleney explores the ambivalence these writers display toward literature’s potential for useless, frivolous vanity. Tracing that ambivalence forward to the modern era, this book also shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for the redemptive utility of literature, Futile Pleasures both theorizes and performs the queer pleasures of futility. Without ever losing sight of the costs of those pleasures, McEleney argues that playing with futility may be one way of moving beyond the impasses that modern humanists, like their early modern counterparts, have always faced.
Strategic Leadership Of Change In Higher Education
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Author : Stephanie Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-25
Strategic Leadership Of Change In Higher Education written by Stephanie Marshall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-25 with Education categories.
The contributors to this book are all leaders in their field – senior executives who have successfully led pan-university initiatives. Providing examples of bold initiatives, and an analysis of their implementation to help the reader reflect on how they might wish to proceed, authentically, in leading and supporting wide-scale change in the future; each chapter highlights the power of the narrative of change. In particular, this second edition demonstrates a change in considering global factors, it: Uses a case study approach to examine global higher education institutions Reflects the huge change in the global higher education landcsape over the past 10 years Reflects on intiatives from the first edition in terms of how they were scaled up and draws on the advantages and disadvantages of each Includes a conclusive ‘Where to Next‘ section that ensures responsiveness and agility to the rapidly changing landscape and flags up a new paradigm for leadership: E4 leadership. (Engaging, energised, empowering, and engaged) Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education is crucial reading for all those involved in leadership and management positions in higher education. With an emphasis on behaviours, alongside passion, ambition and a commitment to shared values, as key ingredients to the success of strategic leaders, this book provides expert commentary and global insight. This is a cutting-edge book that will continue to provide higher education leaders and managers with the information necessary to stay ahead of the curve.
Disconnected America The Future Of Mass Media In A Narcissistic Society
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Author : Ed Shane
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-29
Disconnected America The Future Of Mass Media In A Narcissistic Society written by Ed Shane and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-29 with History categories.
Ed Shane here traces a change in the American pervasive mass media that once disseminated information quickly and stimulated mass cultural response, to a de-massified individual media that incubate a new electronic narcissicism, producing an inwardly-focused society.
Dwelling On Delphi
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Author : Robert M. Woods Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2016-07-22
Dwelling On Delphi written by Robert M. Woods Ph.D. and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-22 with Education categories.
Why the liberal arts are in decline and why you should care. What are the intellectual and spiritual roots of liberal arts learning in the West? Why a liberal arts education rooted in the Great Books is the best education and where you can find it today. Where despite the truth that we are on the edge of the abyss.
The Universe Is On Our Side
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Author : Bruce Ledewitz
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
The Universe Is On Our Side written by Bruce Ledewitz and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Political Science categories.
"There has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix. Americans cannot even converse about politics. All the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better. Bruce Ledewitz shows that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche knew would be momentous and irreversible. God was this culture's story of the meaning of our lives. Even atheists had substitutes for God, like inevitable progress. Now we have no story and do not even think about the nature of reality. That is why we are angry and despairing. America's future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America will begin to heal. Beyond that, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter. Guided by the naturalism of Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy, and the historical faith of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we can learn to trust that the universe bends toward justice and our welfare. That conclusion will complete our healing and restore faith in American public life. We can live without God, but not without thinking about holiness in the universe"--
Curriculum Inquiry In South African Higher Education
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Author : Eli Bitzer
language : en
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Curriculum Inquiry In South African Higher Education written by Eli Bitzer and has been published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Education categories.
"At once evocative and suggestive, this exemplary book gives me hope that educators and scholars across the world will seize the opportunity to self-reflect and enlarge and enrich both their research and their practice in ways that will markedly contribute to the revitalisation of the higher learning in the twenty-first century. The urgency of the need for revitalisation of both research and practice in this domain of inquiry cannot be overstated." Prof Clifton Conrad ? University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA