Humanism Betrayed
Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
Good, Graham
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 128pp ISBN: 978-0773521872
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX12549
This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently dominating the university.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
1 Political Correctness in Canada: The McEwen Report on the Political Science Department at UBC
2 The New Sectarianism: Gender, Race, Sexual Orientation
3 Theory 1: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche
4 Theory 2: Constructionism, Ideology, Textuality
5 Presentism: Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism
6 The Carceral Vision: Geertz, Greenblatt, Foucault, and Culture as Constraint
7 The Liberal Humanist Vision: Northrop Frye and Culture as Freedom
Conclusion: The Hegemony of Theory and the Managerial University
References
Index
Subject Headings