Roosevelt Montás: Lecture and Q+A | Free Tickets

Join us for the 5th installment of the Humanities Event Series, featuring Roosevelt Montás, author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation.

What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities (Princeton University Press).

Sponsors
This event is sponsored by Revelle College's Humanities Program, Eleanor Roosevelt College's Making of the Modern World, and the UC San Diego Parents Fund. Thank you to Chicanx and Latinx Studies for your partnership and support.