Not for profit: why democracy needs the humanities
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world.
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- Full title :Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
"With a new afterword by the author."
Originally published: 2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 168 Seiten ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0691154481, 9780691154480
- oclc:ocn864696723
- LC Classification:LC1011
- Dewey Decimal:370.112
Table of Contents
The silent crisis -- Education for profit, education for democracy -- Educating citizens : the moral (and anti-moral) emotions -- Socratic pedagogy : the importance of argument -- Citizens of the world -- Cultivating imagination : literature and the arts -- Democratic education on the ropes -- Afterword to the paperback edition : reflections on the future of the humanities, at home and abroad.
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