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Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education (Hardcover)
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Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education (Hardcover)
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The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of
liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education
emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all
instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold
sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense,
liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints
on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing
individual natural rights, purports to be the regime of liberty par
excellence. Since both liberal education and liberal democracy aim
to set individuals free, they would seem to be harmonious and
mutually reinforcing. But there are reasons to doubt that liberal
education can be the civic education liberal democracy needs. If
liberal education is in tension with all instrumental purposes, how
does it stand toward the goal of preparing the kind of citizens
liberal democracy needs? The book's contributors are critical of
the way higher education typically interprets its responsibility
for educating citizens, and they link those failures to academia's
neglect of certain founding principles of the American political
tradition and of the traditional liberal arts ideal.
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