Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498502466 ISBN 13 : 9781498502467

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing individual natural rights, purports to be the regime of liberty par excellence. Since both liberal education and liberal democracy aim to set individuals free, they would seem to be harmonious and mutually reinforcing. But there are reasons to doubt that liberal education can be the civic education liberal democracy needs. If liberal education is in tension with all instrumental purposes, how does it stand toward the goal of preparing the kind of citizens liberal democracy needs? The book's contributors are critical of the way higher education typically interprets its responsibility for educating citizens, and they link those failures to academia's neglect of certain founding principles of the American political tradition and of the traditional liberal arts ideal.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Daniel E. Cullen is professor of political science at Rhodes College

James W. Ceaser is professor of politics at the University of Virginia.

Yuval Levin is an Associate Director at The Center for the Study of Technology and Society in Washington, D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498502466
• ISBN 13: 9781498502467
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Éditeur: Cullen Daniel E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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