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The Dream of a Democratic Culture
ISBN-13:
9781137042620
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
324
Autor:
T. Lacy
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
1 - PDF Watermark
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intellectualism, advocating for the liberal arts, distributing cultural capital, and promoting a public philosophy, anchored in mid-century liberalism, that fostered a shared civic culture.
1. The Great Books Movement, 1920-1948 2. Building Britannica's Great Books of the Western World, 1943-1952 3. Making 'Seventy-Four Corpses...Pay Off': The Context and Commerce of the Great Books, 1952-1968 4. 'Mixing Vice and Virtue': Adler, Britannica's Cottage Industry, and Mid-century Anxiety 5. The Common Sense of Great Books Liberalism, 1965-1970 6. Diminished Dreams: Great Books in an Age of Crisis, Fracture, and Transition, 1968-1977 7. 'The Poobah of Popularizers': Paideia, Pluralism, and the Culture Wars, 1978-1988 8. 'The Most Rancorous Cultural War': Bloom, Adler, Stanford, and Britannica, 1988-2001
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