Year: 2025
Author: Taran Kang
Innovative Teaching and Learning , Vol. 7 (2025), Iss. 1 : pp. 48–58
Abstract
At the present moment, there is a danger facing the proponents of liberal arts education. In trying to salvage the liberal arts tradition, its apologists risk diluting it to the point of unrecognizability. Invoking the Nietzschean category of untimeliness and drawing out the importance of reading the writings of the dead, this essay examines the contemporary cultural landscape and offers a critical assessment of the ongoing mechanization of human beings. It suggests that for liberal arts education to mean something substantive today, it must assume, in opposition to this dehumanizing process, a less acquiescent stance towards the environment in which it is imbedded.
Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4208/itl.20250105
Innovative Teaching and Learning , Vol. 7 (2025), Iss. 1 : pp. 48–58
Published online: 2025-01
AMS Subject Headings: Global Science Press
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 11
Keywords: education liberal arts untimeliness reading mechanization Nietzsche.