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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Politics of liberal education. Durham : Duke University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)608844625 Online version: Politics of liberal education. Durham : Duke University Press, c1992 (OCoLC)621848147 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Darryl J Gless; Barbara Herrnstein Smith |
| ISBN: | 0822311836 9780822311836 0822311992 9780822311997 |
| OCLC Number: | 24247079 |
| Notes: | 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. |
| Description: | vi, 305 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Post-contemporary interventions. |
| Responsibility: | Darryl J. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith, editors. |
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