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

By:

Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Public square (Princeton, N.J.)Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.Description: xv, 158 p. : 21 cmISBN:

9780691140643 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

370.115 NUS 23 000754

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Table of contents

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.

Summary: "Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. 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"--Jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	370.115 NUS 000754 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000754

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. 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"--Jacket.

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