America, the West, and Liberal Education,9780847692309

America, the West, and Liberal Education

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ISBN13: 9780847692309
ISBN10: 0847692302
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-02-18
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: America, the West, and Liberal Education 1(6)
Ralph C. Hancock
Liberal Education and the Idea of the West
7(20)
Michael Allen Gillespie
Liberal Education in the Confines of the Liberal Tradition
27(8)
Timothy Fuller
Diversity, Canons, and Cultures
35(20)
Allan Bloom
Tocqueville on Liberal Education and American Democracy
55(14)
Ralph C. Hancock
Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Curriculum: Notes on an American Dilemma
69(14)
Stanley Rosen
The Young, the Good, and the West
83(62)
Michael Platt
The Religious University and Liberal Education
145(28)
James Nuechterlein
Conclusion: Of Liberty and Liberal Education
153(20)
Ralph C. Hancock
Index 173(8)
About the Contributors 181

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