The Grammar Of Our Civility: Classical Education In America - Brossura

Pearcy, Lee T.

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ISBN 10: 1932792163 ISBN 13: 9781932792164

Casa editrice: Baylor Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education’s sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury—and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education, one that takes into account practical expectations for higher education in twenty-first century America.

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L'autore:

Lee T. Pearcy (Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College) is the Director of Curriculum and Lounsbery Chair in Classics at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. Pearcy has authored or coauthored The Homeric Hymn to Apollo (1981), Mediated Muse (1984), The Shorter Homeric Hymns (1989), New First Steps in Latin (1999), New Second Steps in Latin (2001), and New Third Steps in Latin (2003).

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Highly accessible, The Grammar of Our Civility avoids the exaggerations, gratuitous polemic, and lack of historical grounding that have vitiated previous popularizing efforts to make the case for the value of classical studies in contemporary U.S. society. Wearing his immense learning lightly, Lee T. Pearcy cogently and eloquently synthesizes a vast amount of previous scholarship to envision a new form of American classical education: one that reflects—much as European classical studies reflected European social realities and aspirations—the diverse, vibrant intellectual environment and ethical ideals of our nation. —Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park The Grammar of Our Civility is a cri de coeur on behalf of reestablishing classical studies at the core of a new curriculum, one that draws on the distinctly American contact with the classical tradition. Lee Pearcy offers the first comprehensive examination of the history and purposes of classical study in our schools throughout our nation’s history and calls for a radical transformation not only of our scholarship but also of our presentation of the ancient world. I have learned a great deal from this book and I believe all classicists will be challenged by Pearcy’s bold recommendations. —Ward W. Briggs, Jr., Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics, University of South Carolina|Retooling classical education to meet distinctly American conditions.

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• Editore: Baylor Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1932792163
• ISBN 13: 9781932792164
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184