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100 1  Montás, Roosevelt,|eauthor. 
245 10 Rescuing Socrates :|bhow the great books changed my life 
       and why they matter for a new generation /|cRoosevelt 
       Montás. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c2021. 
300    238 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tThe case --|tTurning my attention back to myself: Saint 
       Augustine --|tThe examined life: Socrates, Plato, and a 
       little bit of Aristotle --|tMaking peace with the 
       unconscious: Freud --|tTruth is God: Gandhi --|tNuts and 
       bolts. 
520    "What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally 
       characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics 
       of Western thought and literature, this approach to 
       education is all but extinct in American universities, 
       replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-
       narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack 
       the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while 
       the general public increasingly doubts the value of the 
       humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American 
       academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal
       education transformed his life, and offers an intimate 
       account of the relevance of the Great Books today, 
       especially to members of historically marginalized 
       communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic 
       to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered 
       the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia 
       University's renowned Core Curriculum, one of America's 
       last remaining Great Books programs. The experience 
       changed his life and determined his career--he went on to 
       earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as
       director of Columbia's Center for the Core Curriculum, and
       start a Great Books program for low-income high school 
       students who aspire to be the first in their families to 
       attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary 
       reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors--
       Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi--had a profound impact
       on Montás's life. In doing so, the book drives home what 
       it's like to experience a liberal education--and why it 
       can still remake lives." -- Goodreads.com. 
600 10 Montás, Roosevelt|xBooks and reading. 
650  0 Education, Humanistic|zUnited States. 
650  0 Books and reading|zUnited States. 
650  0 Books and reading|zUnited States|xSociological aspects. 
651  0 United States|xIntellectual life.