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The Liberating Arts

The Liberating Arts

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COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, and indeed for our nation as a whole; it has intensified pressures already threatening liberal arts education. Our conversations aim to enable colleges and universities across the country to learn from one another in addressing today's challenges and opportunities, and they will encourage these institutions to draw on the rich heritage of the liberal arts tradition, while acknowledging its historical limitations, in shaping their responses. Our goal is to think and talk in public about the enduring value of the liberal arts for the particular concerns and challenges of our time.Copyright 2020 All rights reserved.
Episodes
  • Against a System that Has Lost its Liberating Arts

    Against a System that Has Lost its Liberating Arts
    Sep 7 2022

    Myles Werntz is Director of Baptist Studies and Associate Professor of Theology at Abilene Christian University. With Jessica Hooten Wilson, the two discuss Ivan Illich's scandalous 1971 Deschooling Society. The book argues that mass-enforced public schooling trains students more into producers and automatons than into creative, interdependent learners. Distinguishing between school and education, Illich claims the latter must be done with relational and tangible means, such as the tools of the liberal arts, rather than institutionalized grading and ranking.
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    43 mins
  • The Lyceum Movement

    The Lyceum Movement
    Dec 6 2021

    Jeff Bilbro talks with Nathan Beacom about the history--and revival--of the Lyceum. Nathan is directing a project whose mission is to "build meaningful communities by providing a space for neighbors to learn together in friendship. The Lyceum offers classes, events, and a shared space to explore great ideas, great deeds, great art, and the questions that affect our life together. In so doing, it seeks to shape citizens and communities well-formed in self-government for the common good." He and Jeff talk about how these events might form their participants intellectually and socially.
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    44 mins
  • How to Fix the Permanent Crisis in the Humanities

    How to Fix the Permanent Crisis in the Humanities
    Nov 27 2021
    Prof. Eric Adler and Jessica Hooten Wilson discuss his book Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today in conversation with Reitter and Wellmon's The Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. Adler creates a lengthier narrative of the humanities that predates the modern version and shows how rooting the identity of the humanities in this story encourages a return to their humanizing character.
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    41 mins
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