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America, the West, and Liberal Education
Contributor(s): Hancock, Ralph C. (Editor), Bloom, Allan (Contribution by), Fuller, Timothy (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0847692310     ISBN-13: 9780847692316
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 1999
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Annotation: The essays in America, the West, and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursuit of truth and the practical ends embedded in a particular tradition or political community.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | American Government - General
- Philosophy | Political
- Education | Higher
Dewey: 370.112
LCCN: 98-38237
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.88" W x 8.97" (0.59 lbs) 192 pages
 
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More than a decade ago, Allan BloomOs The Closing of the American Mind raised the philosophical stakes of the debate concerning the proper role of the study of the great books in higher education. BloomOs argument for the Western tradition employed both the rhetoric of knowledge for its own sake, and that of the broadly political uses of education. But the question of the precise relationship between the intellectual and the moral-political ends of liberal education was not BloomOs theme; though he clearly opposed the political radicalization of the curriculum espoused by many who styled themselves post modernists, he may not have adequately addressed their contention that all education is deeply political. The essays in America, the West and Liberal Education attempt to advance our understanding of the proper purposes of liberal education in America by exploring the relationship between the free pursuit of truth and the practical ends embedded in a particular tradition or political community.