Classics: why it matters
Editorial POLITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag POLITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781509517930
- ISBN10 1509517936
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 140
- Sammlung Why It Matters #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2018
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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Kultur GrecolatinaClassics: why it matters
Editorial POLITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the Western World. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and the origins of Western superiority over the rest of the world. Few today are willing to defend this elitist, sometimes racist, vision of the importance of Classics, and it is no longer considered essential education for politicians and professionals. Shouldn't Classics then be obsolete? Far from it. As Neville Morley shows, the ancients are as influential today as they ever have been, and we ignore them at our peril. Not only do they have much to teach us about the past, but they can offer important lessons for the complex cultural, social and political worlds we inhabit. Classics is the original interdisciplinary subject, offering students a distinctively open, creative and disputatious education. Classics no longer holds all the answers, but it is unusually receptive to new questions. Introducing Polity s Why it Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subject and aim to inspire a new generation of students.