The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today's College Campuses - Couverture rigide

Egginton, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1635571332 ISBN 13 : 9781635571332

Editeur : BLOOMSBURY, 2018

Synopsis

A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality.

Thirty years after the ture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses-and it hasn't been an unalloyed good for our education system or the country. Though the civil rights movement, feminism, and pride led to profoundly positive social changes, William Egginton argues that our ture's increasingly narrow focus on individual rights puts us in a dangerous place. The goal of our education system, and partiarly the liberal arts, was originally to strengthen community; but the exclusive focus on individualism has led to a new kind of intolerance, degrades our civic discourse, and fatally distracts progressive politics from its commitment to equality.

Egginton argues that our colleges and universities have become exclusive, expensive clubs for the tural and economic elite instead of a national, publicly funded project for the betterment of the country. Only a return to the goals of community, and the egalitarian values underlying a liberal arts education, can head off the further fracturing of the body politic and the splintering of the American mind.


With lively, on-the-ground reporting and trenchant ysis, The Splintering of the American Mind is a powerful book that is guaranteed to be controversial within academia and beyond. At this critical juncture, the book challenges higher education and every American to reengage with our history and its contexts, and to imagine our nation in new and more inclusive ways.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BLOOMSBURY
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1635571332
• ISBN 13: 9781635571332
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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