Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college
curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are
at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of
Liberal Education enters this discussion with a sophisticated
defense of educational reform in response to attacks by academic
traditionalists. The authors here-themselves distinguished scholars
and educators-share the belief that American schools, colleges, and
universities can do a far better job of educating the nation's
increasingly diverse population and that the liberal arts must play
a central role in providing students with the resources they need
to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Within this
area of consensus, however, the contributors display a wide range
of approaches, illuminating the issues from the perspectives of
their particular disciplines-classics, education, English, history,
and philosophy, among others-and their individual experiences as
teachers. Among the topics they discuss are canon-formation in the
ancient world, the idea of a "common culture," and the educational
implications of such social movements as feminism, technological
changes including computers and television, and intellectual
developments such as "theory." Readers interested in the
controversies over American education will find this volume an
informed alternative to sensationalized treatments of these
issues.Contributors. Stanley Fish, Phyllis Franklin, Henry Louis
Gates Jr., Henry A. Giroux, Darryl J. Gless, Gerald Graff, Barbara
Herrnstein Smith, George A. Kennedy, Bruce Kuklick, Richard A.
Lanham, Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Alexander Nehamas, Mary Louise
Pratt, Richard Rorty, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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