Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first Century

Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first Century
ISBN-10
0791417077
ISBN-13
9780791417072
Category
Education
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
1994-01-01
Publisher
SUNY Press
Authors
Clark Kerr, President Emeritus and Former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade

Description

Our taste for blood sport stops short at the bruising clash of football players or the gloved blows of boxers, and the suicide of a politician is no more than a personal tragedy. What, then, are we to make of the ancient Romans, for whom the meaning of sport and politics often depended on death? In this provocative, thoughtful book, Paul Plass shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome. His work offers a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put. Violence, Plass observes, is a universal part of human life, and so must be integrated into social order. Grounding his study in evidence from Roman history and drawing on ideas from contemporary sociology and anthropology, he first discusses gladiatorial combat in ancient Rome. Massive bloodshed in the arena, Plass argues, embodied the element of danger for a society frequently engaged in war, with outsiders--whether slaves, criminals, or prisoners of war--sacrificed for a sense of public security

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