[SydPhil] Book Launch: Teaching the Humanities in a Fractious World by Gavin Kitching

[David Macarthur]

BOOK LAUNCH: TEACHING THE HUMANITIES IN A FRACTIOUS WORLD: A REPLY TO SCEPTICS by GAVIN KITCHING

Sunday 16th March starting 3:00 pm for 3:30 pm

Launched by Professor David Macarthur (Sydney), Professor Elizabeth Thurbon (UNSW) and Frances Foster-Thorpe.

This book confronts an ever more popular suspicion – that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is an ‘elitist’ indoctrination into ‘leftist’ or ‘liberal’ views.

Having taught them for nearly 40 years, Gavin Kitching shows that, on the contrary, studying these subjects leads one to fruitfully question all political and social views (left-wing, right-wing, ‘elite’, ‘popular’, religious, secular) and to a healthy scepticism of all the beliefs about human identity (whether racial, gender, national, or class) to which they give rise.


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Gavin Kitching is an internationally distinguished scholar and researcher in the fields of Third World development, agrarian and rural development, and the philosophy and methodology of social science.
He is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales and a Fellow of the Australian Social Sciences Academy.

RSVP HERE: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Q3WNCvl1rKiyzplMLfQf5TQbnzC?domain=gleebooks.com.au
Venue: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037


Professor David Macarthur
Chair of Examination, FASS
The University of Sydney
https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/david-macarthur.html
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