Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in H. Hamilton Hardcover**

Name: Complacency: Classics and Its Displacement in H. Hamilton Hardcover**
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

ComplacencyClassics and Its Displacement in Higher Education\nAuthor(s): John T. Hamilton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226818634, 978-0226818634\nSynopsis\nA critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.\n In response to philosopher Simon Blackburns portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment.\n The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to.