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Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities / Martha C. Nussbaum.

By: Series: Public square (Princeton, N.J.)Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012], c2010.Description: xv, 168 p. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780691154480 (pbk.) :
  • 0691154481 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LC1011 .N88 2012
Contents:
The silent crisis -- Education for profit, education for democracy -- Educating citizens : the moral (and anti-moral) emotions -- Socratic pedagogy : the importance of argument -- Citizens of the world -- Cultivating imagination : literature and the arts -- Democratic education on the ropes -- Afterword to the paperback edition : reflections on the future of the humanities, at home and abroad.

The silent crisis -- Education for profit, education for democracy -- Educating citizens : the moral (and anti-moral) emotions -- Socratic pedagogy : the importance of argument -- Citizens of the world -- Cultivating imagination : literature and the arts -- Democratic education on the ropes -- Afterword to the paperback edition : reflections on the future of the humanities, at home and abroad.

Reprint. Originally published: c2010. With a new afterword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.

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