About this title: Is the academic warfare over multi-culturalism and political correctness really a sign of America's intellectual decline, as critics such as Allan Bllom and Dinesh D'Souza have suggested? Or is it in fact a welcome sign of vitality, an assertion of the desire for American cultural citizenship by women, blacks, and other groups previously excluded from the mainstream? In this response to these critics, Professor Gerald Graff argues that the conflicts over education today signal the intellectual vigour of American higher education. By teaching these differing conflicts, Graff argues that the ...
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Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780393034240ISBN:0393034240
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780393034240ISBN:0393034240
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780393034240ISBN:0393034240
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Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton, NY
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780393311136ISBN:0393311139
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780393034240ISBN:0393034240
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"The author advocates more 'interaction' within and between the various disciplines at College and University campuses. He suggests that advising student to choose a topic that interests them, "organize your paper logically around a central idea," ... support the "thesis with specific illustration and evidence" ... "is more paralyzing than helpful because it factors out the social conversation that reading, writing, and arguing must be part of in order to become personally meaningful." The student doesn't necessarily have the background of the conflicts on the topic. He notes there is a 'poverty of imagination, [within the academic community]unable ... to imagine how conflict, disagreement, and difference might themselves become a source of educational and cultural coherence ...." The author also notes "art is a field of conflicts in which ideological factors play a major role that has been neglected." He later goes on to say "I have heard it suggested that some of America's present economic difficulties might have been averted if departments of economics had been more open to criticism of their assumptions that dire consequences follow from governmental tampering with free markets." (Bear in mind this book was written in 1991/92, at the end of the Reagan/Bush 41 administrations, time frame.)
The thesis of the book can be summed up in the author's statement on page 170. "Instead of pretending we can eliminate political conflict form teaching, we should start making use of it. All the parties in the culture war claim to stand for democratic debate. They should be asked to prove it.""
"Graff makes a solid argument for teaching literature through engaging students in the debates, controversies, etc. that make the field of literary studies worth continuing. I particularly value his insight that the way students engage literature can and should mirror the way they interact with the world, at large - i.e., as citizens who face many different viewpoints and deep-seeded beliefs."
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