The grammar of our civility : classical education in America
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee Pearcy chronicles how this came to be.
XII, 184 p. 23 cm
9781932792164, 1932792163
1015085590
Foreword1. The Grammar of Our Civility2. The American Dialect3. Finis: Four Arguments against Classics4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic ClassicismNotesWorks CitedIndex