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Title: Pedagogy and Power : Rhetorics of Classical Learning by Yun Lee Too, Niall Livingstone ISBN: 0-521-59435-9 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Summary: Cultural Power A Go Go
Comment: Clearly written under the sign of Foucault, this book attempts to analyze power and how the classics came to acquire it. Yun Lee Too attempts to answer the question you've no doubt asked yourself: "How did the classics become "classic"? On the whole, the book is a rather superficial attempt to analyze how a certain set of texts from antiquity ultimately achieved their position of cultural authority and primacy. If you want to know why the classics came to occupy the position of cultural power, then read this book. The editors go backward chronologically from the late 19th and 20th centuries back to Rome and Greece, by way of the 18th century and the Renaissance. There's a certain arch trendiness to the analysis: unpeeling the evidence like an unwieldy onion, Too strips down the historical layers of interpretation and educational practice, delving into what has made the classics what they are today. When all is said and done and the onion has unravelled, the question is, "Where's the beef?"