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Title: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Updated Edition)
Author: NUSSBAUM MARTHA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/10/2016
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $34.00
Publishing status: Active
“Nussbaum makes a persuasive case.”–New Yorker
“Nussbaum . . . brings to this perennial [education] debate an impassioned urgency . . . and broad erudition. . . . Nussbaum’s defense of this worthy cause is deeply learned.”–Mick Sussman, New York Times Book Review
“One turns with some relief to Martha Nussbaum’s Not for Profit, and her impassioned . . . argument in favor of study of the humanities.”–Peter Brooks, New York Review of Books
“Against the commercialisation of the academy, [Nussbaum] poses a sentient, Socratic and cosmopolitan vision of higher education.”–Jon Nixon, Times Higher Education
“A comprehensive look at today’s worldwide marketplace for college students.”–Michael Alison Chandler, Washington Post
“It’s an important and timely plea because the pursuit of so-called useful educational results continues apace, and because the threats to humanistic education are indeed profound.”–Michael S. Roth, Chronicle of Higher Education
“Moving deftly between analysis and and polemic, the author draws on education practices in India, experimental psychology, the works of such liberal education proponents as Dewey and Tagore to emphasize the importance of critical pedagogy for the development of individual responsibility, innovation, and self-examination. . . . [I]n advocating educational curriculums that recognize the worth of personal development and creative thought, this slim book is itself a small but decisive step in the effort to broaden and enrich current pedagogical practices.”–Publishers Weekly
Series: The Public Square
ISBN: 9780691173320
Pages: 192