Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

George Allan argues that the so-called culture wars in higher education are the result of the dogmatic...
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Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon by Allan, George

Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

CHF 68.54

Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

CHF 68.54
Author: George Allan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
George Allan argues that the so-called culture wars in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues for a more pragmatic canon that is normative and always in need of renovation.

A wide variety of voices are heard in Allan's conversation about the nature and meaning of an education canon, including philosophers Aristotle, Descartes, Arthur Lovejoy, Hannah Arendt, Spengler, Emerson, Lyotard, and Rorty. Contemporary voices include Eva Brann, Charles Anderson, Francis Oakley, Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Bill Readings.

Author: George Allan
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 02/26/2004
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780791459904

About the Author
George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.


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