The Truth of Things: Liberal Arts and the Recovery of Reality - Hardcover

Montgomery, Marion

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0965320871 ISBN 13: 9780965320870

Publisher: Spence Publishing Company, 1999

Synopsis

Providing philosophical and historical perspective back to the 14th century when human and other reality became devalued rather than merely back to the radical 1960s, this scholar (U. of Georgia, 1954-87) analyzes the roots of current ideological turmoil on campus. He calls for subverting the thinking that education is only justified as a path to material rather than intrinsic reward. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

From the Publisher:

Marion Montgomery, scholar, critic, and award-winning poet and novelist, is one of America's preeminent men of letters. From 1954 until 1987 he taught English literature at the University of Georgia and became an authority on Eliot and the Southern Agrarians. A prolific author, he has published twenty books-including a monumental three-volume cultural critique, The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age-and some 250 articles. His work appears frequently in First Things, Crisis, Modern Age, and a host of other journals. A frequent campus lecturer, Mr. Montgomery lives and writes in Crawford, Georgia.

From Library Journal:

Montgomery, a former English literature professor at the University of Georgia, here considers what's wrong with higher education today. He argues that higher education maintains an egalitarian notion that all educated people should look alike and that the proper objects of knowledge are facts and formulas. Consequently, higher education is less about the pursuit of wisdom than comfortable self-preservation. In this regard, Montgomery is a true humanist, fighting against an educational system that produces only material rewards. The book consists of a combination of essays, lectures, and a discussion of "modernism" divided into three sections. With the creativity of a poet and the precision of a philosopher, Montgomery offers a scholarly analysis that reveals the chaos currently plaguing higher education and shows teachers and students a way out of the intellectual wilderness. Recommended for academic libraries.?Samuel T. Huang, Northern Illinois Univ. Libs., DeKalb
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About this edition

• Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0965320871
• ISBN 13: 9780965320870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336