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Philosopher John Henry Crosby: The Classics Protect the Fullness of Our Humanity

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Philosopher John Henry Crosby: The Classics Protect the Fullness of Our Humanity
Composer Franz Schubert in a watercolor by Wilhelm August Rieder. Schubert's song cycle “Die schöne Müllerin” captures the essence of romantic love in all of its stages. Public domain
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Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and president of the nonprofit Hildebrand Project.

“The sensibility that the classics are important, deserving of a place of recognition, and worthy of being learned from, is in many ways anachronistic today,” he said on July 27. But it is a question worth pursuing.

Sharon Kilarski
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Sharon writes theater reviews, opinion pieces on our culture, and the classics series. Classics: Looking Forward Looking Backward: Practitioners involved with the classical arts respond to why they think the texts, forms, and methods of the classics are worth keeping and why they continue to look to the past for that which inspires and speaks to us. To see the full series, see ept.ms/LookingAtClassics.
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