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The Politics of liberal education /
Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated defense of educati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[1992]
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| Colección: | Post-contemporary interventions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The public, the press, and the professors
- Humanities for the future : reflections on the Western culture debate at Stanford / Mary Louise Pratt
- The extraordinary convergence : democracy, technology, theory, and the university curriculum / Richard A. Lanham
- Teach the conflicts / Gerald Graff
- Cult-lit : Hirsch, literacy, and the "national culture" / Barbara Herrnstein Smith
- The master's pieces : on canon formation and the African-American tradition / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Liberal arts education and the struggle for public life : dreaming about democracy / Henry A. Giroux
- Pedagogy in the context of an antihomophobic project / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Serious watching / Alexander Nehamas
- From ivory tower to Tower of Babel/ / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich
- The emergence of the humanities / Bruce Kuklick
- The academy and the public / Phyllis Franklin
- Classics and canons / George A. Kennedy
- Two cheers for the cultural Left / Richard Rorty
- The common touch, or, one size fits all / Stanley Fish
- Against nostalgia : reflections on our present discontents in American higher education / Francis Oakley.