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Theodore (Editor) Roszak
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The Dissenting Academy Essays criticizing the teaching of humanities in American |
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Hardcover |
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1968-01-01 |
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B001YTQM8A |
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New York, NY Pantheon |
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1 Jen (USA: WA) |
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1 michael quinn (Ireland) |
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Jen (USA: WA) (2009/10/18):
From inside the dust jacket "Students, politicians, and endless committees of experts have told us what is wrong with America's universities, but little has been heard from the scholars and teachers themselves. Perhaps it is symptomatic that so few should be concerned with what is actually taught.
The Dissenting Academy is an important book; important because it presents a coherent critique of the accepted scholarship, important because it offers an alternative role for American scholarship. The dissent involved is radical in the truest sense, going to the roots of American society and showing clearly the way in which the university represents its wrongs and helps to perpetuate them.
The Disseting Academy is an analysis of what is being taught- and not taught - in America's universities. The contributers specifically examine the major humanistic disciplines, discussing both the state of American scholarship and the role which it has come to play in American society. To what degree, for example, are our econimists or anthropologists teaching as they do because of what they themselves have become?
Perhaps the most important accomplishment of this book is to show by example what universities could be like, to demonstrate the intellectual excitement and integrity which is found so rarely. Here is a taste of what we could have learned as students, of what may yet be taught. "
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