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Republic of the Intellect: 30th Anniversary of a Modern Classic
Gary Scott
By Gary Scott, Nov 6, 2009 in Musings, Pedagogy and Teaching, Academic Life Outside the Classroom, Publishing and Research

Liberal education for Professor Eva T.H. Brann consists of "artfully superintended conversations . . . aided by great books." It provides Americans with an education that suits its political regime, a matching, according to Brann, that Aristotle would have recommended. Studying the classics and the American founding does "not aim at a return to the past but at its re-appropriation for the present."

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