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Not for Profit : Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The Public Square
Argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad. This title offers a manifesto that should be a rallying cry for those who cares about the deepest purposes of education.
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The Public Square
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 citize ...Show more
POLITICS OF THE VEIL by Scott Joan Wallach
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The\Public Square Ser.
In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of conspicuous signs of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard th ...Show more
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History by Jill Lepore
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The Public Square
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution - so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty - so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's ...Show more
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