Book : Rescuing Socrates How The Great Books Changed My Life

-Titulo Original : Rescuing Socrates How The Great Books Changed My Life And Why They Matter For A New Generation

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Princeton University Press

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Review Rescuing Socrates is a warm, appealing narrative of how it feels to be ‘thrust into a conversation’ with fellow students about life’s most ‘serious and unsettling questions.’---Martha Bayles, Wall Street Journal[A] combination memoir and call to arms. . . . Despite those who claim that these are merely works by dead, possibly irrelevant white men, Montas argues that the Great Books approach has a fundamentally democratizing impulse.---John McWhorter, New York TimesThanks to Montas . . . Socrates had a good 2021.---George F. Will, Washington Post[An] earnest defense of the humanities, which is also a personal testament to the power of a liberal education.---Thomas Chatterton Williams, The AtlanticOne can only hope that Rescuing Socrates rescues others as well.---Naomi Schaefer Riley, CommentaryThat’s why the perspective of Roosevelt Montas, author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation, is so badly needed. . . . In this part memoir, part call to action, Montas argues that reading great literature and philosophy can make working-class people’s lives more meaningful and that everyone should have the opportunity to read great books.---Liza Featherstone, JacobinMontas. . . weaves a compelling personal narrative together with a forceful argument that reading classic texts, even those originating in predominantly white, Eurocentric cultures, is an important opportunity for underserved students of color to transform themselves and transform the inequitable social structures within which they are embedded---Brian Rosenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education[An] insightful work. . . . Few colleges and universities still require study of Great Books as part of their curricula, but Montas makes a compelling case for the life-changing results of such pedagogy; he notes how, as an emigre from the Dominican Republic, he benefited from the breadth and depth of these approaches. Library JournalBy taking us through his reading and rereading of books over the course of a life, Montas can articulate what is rarely articulated well about great books education.---Jonathan Marks, Washington ExaminerA heartbreakingly honest immigrant tale of displacement, loss, wrenching readjustment and self-discovery, this book also offers a gripping account of how participation in the great conversation over justice, ethics, citizenship and the nature of the good life can subvert hierarchies of privilege, redeem lost souls, open minds and transform lives.---Steve Mintz, Inside Higher EdRescuing Socrates, Roosevelt Montas’s memoir-cum-paean to the classics, is a timely and much-needed book. . . . If administrators and education advocates take the message of Rescuing Socrates to heart, then our students, our schools, and our nation might yet see a brighter future.---Matthew Levey, City JournalMontas convincingly makes the argument that the classics enrich any life pursuit. By doing so, his story should appeal to anyone who cares about education. There is something here to illuminate and inspire.---Nathaniel Grossman, Fordham Institute[An] important book.---Matthew Bianco, Circe Institute A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montas tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate ac