Not for Profit (eBook)

Why Democracy Needs the Humanities - Updated Edition

Martha C. Nussbaum (Autor)

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2016 | Updated Edition
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8350-9 (ISBN)

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Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the Law School and in the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (Princeton).

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A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn 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 been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable, productive, and empathetic individuals. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.In response to this dire situation, Nussbaum argues that we must resist efforts to reduce education to a tool of the gross national product. Rather, we must work to reconnect education to the humanities in order to give students the capacity to be true democratic citizens of their countries and the world.In a new preface, Nussbaum explores the current state of humanistic education globally and shows why the crisis of the humanities has far from abated. Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troublingand hopefulglobal educational developments. Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Reihe/Serie: The Public Square
• Vorwort: Martha C. Nussbaum
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: academic freedom • Accountability • Achievement (heraldry) • Aggression • Amartya Sen • americans • amos bronson alcott • Anxiety • Association of American Colleges and Universities • Basic education • basic skills • Career • Case study • Classroom • critical thinking • Criticism • Curriculum • democracy and education • Disgust • Donald Winnicott • Economic Growth • education in India • education reform • Empathy • Employment • Entertainment • Fine Art • Friedrich Fröbel • Funding • Global Citizenship • Gurcharan Das • Harvard University Press • higher education • Hinduism • humiliation • Ideology • Institution • Intellectual • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi • John Dewey • John Stuart Mill • learning • Lecture • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • Literacy • Literature • Main effect • Manliness (book) • Maria Montessori • Matthew Lipman • music and movement • Narcissism • narrative • Norm (social) • numeracy • of education • Oxford University Press • Participation (decision making) • Pedagogy • Peer Pressure • Philosopher • Philosophy of education • Politician • Princeton University Press • private university • pundit • quality of life • Rabindranath Tagore • Racism • Ralph Ellison • Religion of Humanity • rhetoric • role-playing • rote learning • Science • science education • secondary education • Self-Help • Shame • social stigma • Society • Socratic (Community) • Socratic method • Socratic questioning • Suffering • Sympathy • Teacher • Teacher Education • Technology • Textbook • Thought • Value (ethics) • vocational education • Voting • vulnerability • work of art • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8350-4 / 1400883504
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8350-9 / 9781400883509