Bonfire of the Humanities Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age

Name: Bonfire of the Humanities Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age
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ISBN: 9781882926541

ISBN-10: 1882926544

ISBN-13: 9781882926541

Edition: 2001

Authors: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, Bruce S. Thornton

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: ISI Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 410
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Victor Davis Hanson is the military historian who is a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written several popular books on classic warfare, including "The Other Greeks", "Who Killed Homer?", & "The Western Way of War". He lives in Selma, California.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Academic Populism and the Assault on the Classics	p. ix
What We Should Not Be and Not Do
Cultivating Sophistry	p. 3
Socrates Redux: Classics in the Multicultural University?	p. 29
Very Bad Theory
More Quarreling in the Muses' Birdcage	p. 55
"Too Much Ego in Your Cosmos"	p. 93
The Enemy Is Us: The "Betrayal of the Postmodern Clerks"	p. 137
Elitists, Careerists, and Assorted Opportunists
Self-Promotion and the "Crisis" in Classics	p. 195
Who Killed Homer?: The Prequel	p. 239
The Twilight of the Professors	p. 299
Epilogue: Not the Unabomber	p. 309
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 359
About the Authors	p. 374
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