Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation

Author: Roosevelt Montas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterised 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 specialisation. 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...Read more