Not For Profit (Record no. 74654)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691140643 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 370.115 |
| Cutter | Nus |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nussbaum, Martha C. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Not For Profit |
| Remainder of title | : Why Democracy Needs The Humanities |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Jersey |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii;158 |
| Other physical details | 8x5 |
| Dimensions | hb |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | The Public Square |
| 520 ## - Remark | |
| Summary, etc | In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. We increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world. In response to this dire situation, 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. Drawing on the stories of troubling--and hopeful--educational developments from around the world, Nussbaum offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for anyone who cares about the deepest purposes of education. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | ENG |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Education, Humanistic-Philosophy |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Democracy and education |
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| Item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Permanent location | Current location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Koha item type |
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| Book | HBCSE | HBCSE | Education | 2014-05-20 | 370.115/Nus | 18487 | 2022-06-15 | 2019-09-25 | Book |