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A Jane Austen Education

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By William Deresiewicz Verified
| The Montreal Review Verified
*** A JANE AUSTEN EDUCATION *** By William Deresiewicz *** The Montréal Review, July 2011 *** "A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter" by William Deresiewicz (Penguin Press, 2011) *** "Like Austen, Deresiewicz is lucid, principled and knows how to think as well as how to feel, without ever sacrificing one to the other. He understands that most of us want more than just an exquisite aesthetic experience from a novel.
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Most Academic Research Should Stop

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By William Deresiewicz Verified
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
It’s no coincidence, it seems to me, that the decline of liberal democracy, as a fact and value, has succeeded the decline of liberal education as a fact and value. If we are ever to revive the first, an essential step will be to resurrect the second. The two “liberals,” after all, are the same. They refer to political liberty, as understood by ancient Athens, republican Rome, the American founders: not libertarian freedom from individual constraint but collective self-government by civic equals.
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How to Revive Liberal Education

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By William Deresiewicz Verified
| Persuasion
Student reading, Mount St Mary’s College, 1952. (Photo by University of Southern California/Contributor.) We’re delighted to feature this article as part of our series on Liberal Virtues and Values. That liberalism is under threat is now a cliché—yet this has done nothing to stem the global resurgence of illiberalism. Part of the problem is that liberalism is often considered too “thin” to win over the allegiance of citizens, and that liberals are too afraid of speaking in moral terms.
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