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Education's End (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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The question of what living is for--of what one should care about
and why--is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under
the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and
universities have expelled this question from their classrooms,
judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and
carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has
happened and calls for the restoration of life's most important
question to an honored place in higher education.
The author contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the
question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction,
with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned
by college and university teachers. In particular, teachers of the
humanities, who once felt a special responsibility to guide their
students in exploring the question of what living is for, have lost
confidence in their authority to do so. And they have lost sight of
the question itself in the blinding fog of political correctness
that has dominated their disciplines for the past forty years.
Yet Kronman sees a readiness for change--a longing among teachers
as well as students to engage questions of ultimate meaning. He
urges a revival of the humanities' lost tradition of studying the
meaning of life through the careful but critical reading of great
works of literary and philosophical imagination. And he offers here
the charter document of that revival.
General
Imprint: |
Yale University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2007 |
First published: |
November 2007 |
Authors: |
Anthony T. Kronman
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
420 |
Edition: |
Large type / large print edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-13864-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
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LSN: |
0-300-13864-4 |
Barcode: |
9780300138641 |
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