TY - JFULL ID - 30442946 TI - Arion. PY - 1962 SN - 23276436 PB - Austin : Dean of the Graduate School, University of Texas, DB - UniCat KW - Humanities KW - Humanities. KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Classical education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30442946 AB - More than humane philology is essential for keeping the classics as a living force. Arion therefore exists to publish work that needs to be done and that otherwise might not get done. We want to stimulate, provoke, even "plant" work that now finds no encouragement or congenial home elsewhere. This means swimming against the mainstream, resisting the extremes of conventional philology and critical fashion into which the profession is now polarized. But occupying this vital center should in no way preclude the crucial centrifugal movement that may lead us across disciplinary lines and beyond the academy. Our commitment is to a genuine and generous pluralism that opens up rather than polarizes classical studies. We will not be coerced into conforming either to the traditional paradigms or to the "new" metaphysic and ideological absolutism of contemporary theory. If we are to move beyond the cant of "isms" now dominating the academy, intellectual daring is needed, not disciplinary diffidence. ER -