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Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education
Author: John Stuart Blackie
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2009-01
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781104010645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Stuart Blackie
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780484285629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education Citizens or edinburgh, students OF the university, IT is not without a certain unwonted buoyancy of feeling and a peculiar elasticity of hope, that I commence with the present Address my labours as a teacher of Greek literature amongst you. Hellenic learning has long stood very low in Scotland so low, indeed, that, were the prospects of classical teaching in this country no better now than they have been for the last two hundred years, I should have been tempted, per haps, to consider myself justified in performing the business of the Greek class in this University as a sort of Official by-work, necessary to be gone through in a routine way, for the sake of a decent show to the world, but by no means as the serious business of my life, from which I might expect any joyful result for the brighter blossoming and more mellow fruitage of the fair tree of human culture. As the larch, according to the observations of naturalists, grows on a sandstone sub soil only with a hollow hearted show of vitality for a few years, and then droops so Greek learning in Scotland, with one or two brilliant but abnormal exceptions, has existed only in the shape of a number of ill-conditioned seeds, that have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education
Author: Tbd
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Published: 2020-02-16
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9780371417263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Classical Literature in Its Relation to the Nineteenth Century and Scottish University Education. An Inaugural Lecture, Delivered in the University of Edinburgh
John Stuart Blackie
Author: Stuart Wallace
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748628193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.
The Making of Modern Greece
Author: David Ricks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1317024737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century.
The Making of Modern Greece
Author: Professor David Ricks
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-06-28
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1409480275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and the story of 'Modern Greece' is usually said to begin. Less well known, but of even greater importance, was the international recognition given to Greece as an independent state with full sovereign rights, as early as 1830. This places Greece in the vanguard among the new nation-states of Europe whose emergence would gather momentum through to the early twentieth century, a process whose repercussions continue to this day. Starting out from that perspective, which has been all but ignored until now, this book brings together the work of scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the contribution of characteristically nineteenth-century European modes of thought to the 'making' of Greece as a modern nation. Closely linked to nationalism is romanticism, which exercised a formative role through imaginative literature, as is demonstrated in several chapters on poetry and fiction. Under the broad heading 'uses of the past', other chapters consider ways in which the legacies, first of ancient Greece, then later of Byzantium, came to be mobilized in the construction of a durable national identity at once 'Greek' and 'modern'. The Making of Modern Greece aims to situate the Greek experience, as never before, within the broad context of current theoretical and historical thinking about nations and nationalism in the modern world. The book spans the period from 1797, when Rigas Velestinlis published a constitution for an imaginary 'Hellenic Republic', at the cost of his life, to the establishment of the modern Olympic Games, in Athens in 1896, an occasion which sealed with international approval the hard-won self-image of 'Modern Greece' as it had become established over the previous century.
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Radical Human Ecology
Author: Rose Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 1317071921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands of our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can not just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume covers the following key research areas: Theories of Human Ecology Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology Research practice in Human Ecology The researcher-researched relationship Research priorities for a holistic world With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.
