Hamilton John T.
Hamilton John T. - Complacency Classics And Its Displacement In Higher Education - Paperback
Hamilton John T. - Complacency Classics And Its Displacement In Higher Education - Paperback
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Description: A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment. The subjects philosophies and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority derived from the golden age of the classical tradition shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data statistical reasoning and presumably neutral abstraction which often dismiss humanist subjectivity legitimize self - sufficiency and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal ethical and political complacency in our present era.
Title: Complacency Classics And Its Displacement In Higher Education
Author(s): Hamilton John T.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226818627
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 4/22/2022
Series: Critical Antiquities
Category: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education
Description: A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy. In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn's portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment. The subjects philosophies and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority derived from the golden age of the classical tradition shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data statistical reasoning and presumably neutral abstraction which often dismiss humanist subjectivity legitimize self - sufficiency and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal ethical and political complacency in our present era.
Title: Complacency Classics And Its Displacement In Higher Education
Author(s): Hamilton John T.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226818627
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 4/22/2022
Series: Critical Antiquities
Category: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education
