<p>'The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the first magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (1987) are among the latest and most politically inflammatory manifestations of a 'crisis' that this book demonstrates has been going on for two centuries. In contrast to the heated polemics and hyperbole of current debates concerning the role of higher education in the United States, this eloquent, balanced, and witty book seeks to bring sense to a volatile subject by reminding us that controversy has always surrounded the curriculum of the modern university. It points out where and how contemporary critics of the curriculum are wrong, historically speaking, and it shows how American ideals of 'liberal education' are obscure, the product of many different attitudes and historical intentions.</p>

The Battleground of the Curriculum: Liberal Education and American Experience

Education & Teaching

W. B. Carnochan

Higher & Continuing Education

Stanford University Press

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Profession 2008

Business & Money

David Marshall

Peter Brooks

Michael Bernard-Donals

Thomas A. Lovik

Robert F. Barsky

Gillian Lord

Monika Chavez

Glenn S. Levine

Nancy K. Miller

Nicoletta Pireddu

Peter Kerry Powers

Dana Ringuette

Lara Lomicka Anderson

Corinne Crane

Rita Felski

Business Culture

Modern Language Assn of Amer

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