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.