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The Grammar of Our Civility
Lee T. Pearcy
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The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxuryaand this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility , Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role ... Read more
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxuryaand this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility , Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Baylor University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Waco, United States
ISBN
9781932792164
SKU
V9781932792164
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About Lee T. Pearcy
Lee T Pearcy is the Director of Curriculum and Lounsbery Chair in Classics at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.
Reviews for The Grammar of Our Civility
Wearing his immense learning lightly, Lee T. Pearcy cogently and eloquently synthesizes a vast amount of previous scholarship to envision a new form of American classical education.
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park The Grammar of Our Civility is a cri de coeur on behalf of reestablishing classical studies at the core of a ... Read more
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park The Grammar of Our Civility is a cri de coeur on behalf of reestablishing classical studies at the core of a ... Read more