Three Books on the Humanities and Classics

In this episode, Eric Adler discusses three books related to the humanities and classics. A more detailed list of these works is included in the episode notes.

Episode 20 of the Eclectic Intellection podcast, hosted by Eclectic Intellection, titled "Three Books on the Humanities and Classics" was published on November 29, 2022 and runs 13 minutes.

November 29, 2022 ·13m · Eclectic Intellection

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In this episode, Eric Adler discusses three books related to the humanities and classics. A more detailed list of these works is included in the episode notes.

Episode Description

Eric Adler is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland. He recently wrote The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (Oxford University Press, 2020).

In this episode, he discusses the following books:

1. Irving Babbitt, Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities (Houghton, Mifflin, 1908).

2. Robert E. Proctor, Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve our Schools (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).

3. Cicero, Pro Archia.

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