The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time)
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ISBN: 0393062759 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, January 2010
The Marketplace of Ideas
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In this volume, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University, Menand (English, Harvard U.), who was involved in the development of a new general education curriculum at Harvard, analyzes the American university system, the philosophical and historical ideas that created it in the nineteenth century, and their development since then. Focusing on the liberal arts and sciences, he notes that the system has changed very little and focuses on four questions--why it is difficult to institute a general education curriculum, why the humanities discipline underwent a crisis of legitimation, why interdisciplinarity has become important, and why professors have the same politics--and proposes reforms to the system. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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