A Necessary Tension: Nussbaum and Simon Inform a Pedagogical Reading of Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Abstract

a product of education and training. It is a mental habit and power . . . [that] is our only guarantee against delusion, deception, superstition, and misapprehension of ourselves and our earthly circumstances . . . [Those] educated in it cannot be stampeded . . . [since] education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can truly be said that it makes good citizens. (pp. 632, 633)