The Politics of liberal education [electronic resource] / Darryl J. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, editors. - Durham : Duke University Press, c1992. - vi, 305 p. - Post-contemporary interventions . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. Post-contemporary interventions. .

Revised papers originally presented at a conference held in 1988 at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. All but two essays previously published as vol. 89, no. 1 (winter 1990) of the South Atlantic quarterly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Humanities for the future : reflections on the Western culture debate at Stanford / The extraordinary convergence : democracy, technology, theory, and the university curriculum / Teach the conflicts / Cult-lit : Hirsch, literacy, and the "national culture" / The master's pieces : on canon formation and the African-American tradition / Liberal arts education and the struggle for public life : dreaming about democracy / Pedagogy in the context of an antihomophobic project / Serious watching / From ivory tower to Tower of Babel/ / The emergence of the humanities / The academy and the public / Classics and canons / Two cheers for the cultural Left / The common touch, or, one size fits all / Against nostalgia : reflections on our present discontents in American higher education / Mary Louise Pratt -- Richard A. Lanham -- Gerald Graff -- Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Henry A. Giroux -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Alexander Nehamas -- Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Bruce Kuklick -- Phyllis Franklin -- George A. Kennedy -- Richard Rorty -- Stanley Fish -- Francis Oakley. Introduction : The public, the press, and the professors --


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Education, Humanistic--United States--Congresses.


Electronic books.

LC1023 / .P65 1992

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