The ennobling of democracy : the challenge of the postmodern era
He argues that by reappropriating classical civic rationalism-and especially classical philosophy of education-a framework may be established to integrate the most significant findings of modern rationalism into a conception of humanity that encompasses, in an unprecedented way, the entire scope of the human condition.
Print Book, English, 1993
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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (Md.), 1993
vii, 227 p ; 24 cm.
9780801842627, 9780801846359, 080184262X, 0801846358
911320459
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Postmodern PredicamentPart I: The Inadequacy of the Postmodernist ResponseChapter 1. Postmodernism and the Avant-GardeChapter 2. The Heideggerian Roots of Postmodernism Chapter 3. "Weak Thinking"Chapter 4. American PostmodernismPart II: The Spiritual Challenges of the Post-Cold War EraChapter 5. The Challenge For And From EuropeChapter 6. The Need to Rethink Our Rights and Our RepublicanismPart III: Revitalizing the Intellectual Roots of Civid CultureChapter 7. Reinvigorating the Legacy of Classical Republicanism Chapter 8. Rethinking the Foundations of LiberalismPart IV: Education: Civic and LiberalChapter 9. Retrieving Civic Educations as the Heart of American Public SchoolingChapter 10. Against Cannons and Canonicity: Dialectic as the Heart of Higher EducationSelect List of Works CitedIndex