Not for Profit – Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Name: Not for Profit – Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691264394
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Szerző: Martha C. Nussbaum

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A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this shor...

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Szerző

Martha C. Nussbaum

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2024

oldal

192

EAN

9780691264394

ISBN

0691264392

Enbook ID

44768613

Kiadó

Princeton University Press

Súly

666

Méretek

139 x 215 x 15

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A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, 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. Translated into twenty-five languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling—and hopeful—global educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.

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