

Interview: Dr. Eric Adler on Battle of the Classics | The New Thinkery Ep. 68
6 snips Nov 10, 2021
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
The Battle of the Classics, How in Nineteenth Century Debate Can Save the Humanities to Day
02:39 • 2min
The Battle of the Classics, How a Late Nineteenth Century Debate Can Save the Humanities to Day
04:26 • 4min
The Battle of the Classics in American Higher Education
07:59 • 2min
The Problems With Mental Discipline
09:33 • 3min
The Ancient Language Institute
12:04 • 2min
Humanism Versus Humanitarianism
14:34 • 4min
The Problem Isn't What You Eat, It's the Utensils You Use
18:45 • 2min
How to Look Up Pronunciation of Woris Visible
20:55 • 2min
The Classics Aren't Classics, Right?
22:33 • 4min
The Humanities and Humanism
26:10 • 4min
The History of the Humanities
30:10 • 2min
Sinclair Lewis and Irving Babbitt
32:23 • 3min
The Battle of the Classics
35:05 • 2min
The Battle of the Classics
36:51 • 2min
Increasing Student Choice in Higher Education Is a Good Idea
39:18 • 2min
What Is the Neo Liberal University?
41:22 • 2min
Do You Think That a Cessful Response Comes From the Bottom Up?
43:32 • 3min
Is the Intercollegiate Studies Institute a Good Place to Start?
46:16 • 2min
How Are We Going to Win the Battle?
47:59 • 4min
Those Are the Things I've Been Thinking About for a While Now.
52:02 • 2min
Babbitt's Challenge
53:58 • 4min
Teaching the Greatest Texts in the World
58:11 • 2min
Is There a Danger in Focusing on Education?
01:00:15 • 6min
Aristocracy of Character in Classical Literature in Democracies
01:05:52 • 3min
I Don't Use Translations, but Let It Go
01:08:24 • 4min
Is There a Major Classical Influence on Youye?
01:12:53 • 5min
Is This Where a Waver Life by Plutarch?
01:18:15 • 3min
The Idiod, Homers Iditus Teronus Teasih
01:20:59 • 5min
Averyniced, What Was Your First Car?
01:25:43 • 1min
What Are You Reading Right Now?
01:27:03 • 6min