Complacency : classics and its displacement in higher education /

This short book examines the history of complacency in Classics with implications for our contemporary moment. It responds to a published piece by the philosopher Simon Blackburn ["The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy," Times Higher Education (2009)] who presented "complacency" a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hamilton, John T. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022].
Series:	Critical antiquities.
Subjects:	Classical philology. Classicism. Learning and scholarship.

Table of Contents:

The wolf on the plain
Sin in the academy
Colonial planning
Propositional surfaces
Classical platforms
Philology as ancilla facultatum
Philological investigations
Pleasingly flat
Platea
The war on complacency
The golden age
Institutions
The humanities.