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The Politics of liberal education

Author: Darryl J Gless; Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, ©1992.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
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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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