Hunter claims that, since the Romantics, culture has been
identified with the promise of a complete development of human
capacities and, typically, the "rise of English" has been viewed in
terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the
education system. His book presents a critique of this view of
culture and literary education. English, he argues, inherits its
"humanizing" powers not from culture but from techniques of moral
supervision built into the apparatus of popular education. He also
suggests that the attributes shaped by English are not parts of a
full set promised by culture; rather, they are a specialized
variant of those specified by governments when they took as their
object the "moral and physical" condition of the population. Ian
Hunter has published a number of articles in a variety of learned
journals.
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Language, Discourse, Society |
Release date: |
December 1988 |
First published: |
1988 |
Authors: |
Ian Hunter
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
317 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-333-38825-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
|
LSN: |
0-333-38825-9 |
Barcode: |
9780333388259 |
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