Humanism Betrayed: Theory, Ideology and Culture in the Contemporary University
Mcgill-Queen's University Press (2001)
| Abstract | Political correctness in Canada: the McEwen report on the political science department at UBC -- The new sectarianism: gender, race, sexual orientation -- Theory 1: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche -- Theory 2: Constructionism, ideology, textuality -- Presentism: postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism -- The carceral vision: Geertz, Greenblatt, Foucault, and culture as constraint -- The liberal humanist vision: Northrup Frye and culture as freedom -- Conclusion: the hegemony of theory and the managerial university. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Education, Higher Philosophy Education, Higher Aims and objectives Education, Humanistic Enseignement supérieur Philosophie Enseignement supérieur Finalités Éducation humaniste | |||||||||
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| Call number | MLCM 2006/11163 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0773521860 | |||||||||
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