Description: Rescuing Socrates : How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, Hardcover by Montás, Roosevelt, ISBN 0691200394, ISBN-13 9780691200392, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US
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 Monts 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.
Monts 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 Monts’s life. In doing so, th drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
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Book Title: Rescuing Socrates : How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why T
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rescuing Socrates : How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: General, Higher, Aims & Objectives, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 15.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Education
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Roosevelt Montás
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
