In this episode, Eric Adler discusses three books related to the humanities and classics. A more detailed list of these works is included in the episode notes.
Eric Adler is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Maryland. He recently wrote The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today (Oxford University Press, 2020).
In this episode, he discusses the following books:
1. Irving Babbitt, Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities (Houghton, Mifflin, 1908).
2. Robert E. Proctor, Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve our Schools (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).
3. Cicero, Pro Archia.