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050	0	0	_aMLCM 2024/43327 (L)
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100	1		_aMontás, Roosevelt, _d1973- _942114
245	1	0	_aRescuing Socrates : _bhow the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation / _cRoosevelt Montás.
246	3	0	_aHow the great books changed my life and why they matter for a new generation
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2021]
300			_avii, 238 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aMinimal Level Cataloging Plus. _5DLC
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The case -- Turning my attention back to myself: Saint Augustine -- The examined life: Socrates, Plato, and a little bit of Aristotle -- Making peace with the unconscious: Freud -- Truth is God: Gandhi -- Nuts and bolts.
520			_aA 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 backgrounds. What 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 Montas 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. Montas 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 Montas'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.
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650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States.
650		0	_aBooks and reading _zUnited States _xSociological aspects.
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650		7	_aEducation, Humanistic. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00903134
650		7	_aIntellectual life. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00975769
651		0	_aUnited States _xIntellectual life.
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aMontás, Roosevelt . _tRescuing Socrates. _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, [2021] _z9780691224381 _w(OCoLC)1276860013
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