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Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha 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 rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad. Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4008-3422-8
- EAN: 9781400834228
- Produktnummer: 13922931
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 178 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 700 KB
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