TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montas,Roosevelt
TI  - Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation 
SN  - 9780691224381
AV  - LC1011 .M66 2021
U1  - 370.92 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Education, Humanistic
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adoption
KW  - Africa
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Archival research
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - British subject
KW  - Bullshit
KW  - Celibacy
KW  - Censure
KW  - Charles Darwin
KW  - Circular reasoning
KW  - Civil disobedience
KW  - Classroom
KW  - Concept
KW  - Connotation
KW  - Conscience
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Consent of the governed
KW  - Conspiracy theory
KW  - Core Curriculum (Columbia College)
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Crito
KW  - Curfew
KW  - Curriculum
KW  - Disgust
KW  - Doomsday cult
KW  - Economics
KW  - Education
KW  - Emma Goldman
KW  - Ethnic group
KW  - Eudaimonia
KW  - Far-right politics
KW  - Free association (psychology)
KW  - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - Graduate school
KW  - Great books
KW  - Health insurance
KW  - Hostos Community College
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Ignorance
KW  - Individual psychology
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intellect
KW  - Intelligentsia
KW  - International student
KW  - Irony
KW  - Jacques Barzun
KW  - Jean-Martin Charcot
KW  - Justification (theology)
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Liberal arts education
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Liberal education
KW  - Literature
KW  - Macbeth
KW  - Mahadev Desai
KW  - Mahatma Gandhi
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Motivation
KW  - New Space (Uruguay)
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Originality
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Physicist
KW  - Piety
KW  - Pontius Pilate
KW  - Popularity
KW  - Privilege (social inequality)
KW  - Proselytism
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Psychologist
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Radicalization
KW  - Religion in South Africa
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious experience
KW  - Renunciation
KW  - Resentment
KW  - Scholarship
KW  - Secondary education
KW  - Secular humanism
KW  - Self-concept
KW  - Self-denial
KW  - Self-knowledge (psychology)
KW  - Social contract
KW  - Spiritual autobiography
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Symptom
KW  - The Islamist
KW  - The Wealth of Nations
KW  - Thought
KW  - Thucydides
KW  - To This Day
KW  - Towel
KW  - Transcendentalism
KW  - Universalism
KW  - Untouchability
KW  - Wakefulness
KW  - Yale Law School
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION. The Case --; CHAPTER 1. Turning My Attention Back to Myself: Saint Augustine --; CHAPTER 2. The Examined Life: Socrates, Plato, and a Little Bit of Aristotle --; CHAPTER 3. Making Peace with the Unconscious: Freud --; CHAPTER 4. Truth Is God: Gandhi --; EPILOGUE. Nuts and Bolts --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - 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 Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities.Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college.Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691224381?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691224381
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691224381/original
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