T. Lacy
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2013
9781349340941
The Dream of a Democratic Culture
Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781349340941
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that fostered a shared civic culture.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349340941
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
1. The Great Books Movement, 1920-1948 2. Building Britannica's Great Books of the Western World, 1943-1952 3. Making 'Seventy-Four Corpses…Pay Off': The Context and Commerce of the Great Books, 1952-1968 4. 'Mixing Vice and Virtue': Adler, Britannica's Cottage Industry, and Mid-century Anxiety 5. The Common Sense of Great Books Liberalism, 1965-1970 6. Diminished Dreams: Great Books in an Age of Crisis, Fracture, and Transition, 1968-1977 7. 'The Poobah of Popularizers': Paideia, Pluralism, and the Culture Wars, 1978-1988 8. 'The Most Rancorous Cultural War': Bloom, Adler, Stanford, and Britannica, 1988-2001