Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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1997.
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N370.112/6
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xii, 328 p. ; 25 cm.
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Introduction: The Old Education and the Think-Academy -- Ch. 1. Socratic Self-Examination -- Ch. 2. Citizens of the World -- Ch. 3. The Narrative Imagination --Ch. 4. The Study of Non-Western Cultures -- Ch. 5. African-American Studies -- Ch. 6. Women's Studies --Ch. 7. The Study of Human Sexuality...
Drawing on Socrates and the Stoics, Nussbaum establishes three core values of liberal education -critical self-examination, the ideal of the world citizen, and the development of the narrative imagination. Then, taking us into classrooms and campuses across the nation, including prominent research u...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Massachusetts
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1997.
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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural st...
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Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education / Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-320) and index.
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0674179498 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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0674179498 (pbk)
9780674179493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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370.112
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