| Description |
392 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Foreward / Saul Bellow -- Students. The clean slate -- Books -- Music -- Relationships -- Nihilism, American style. The German connection -- Two revolutions and two states of nature -- The self -- Creativity -- Culture -- Values -- The Nietzcheanization of the left or vice versa -- Our ignorance -- The university. From Socrates Apology to Heidegger's Rektoratsrede -- The Sixties -- The student and the university. |
| Summary |
In this book, the author (a distinguished political philosopher) argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis marked by obvious declines in appreciation of humanities, a drop in the qualitative output of our university systems, and a disquieting disconnect between today's students and the spiritual and cultural traditions of their heritage. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Education, Humanistic -- United States.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0671479903 |
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9780671479909 |
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