Higher Education in the Making

Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

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George Allan

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SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

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George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate curriculum. He then proposes a middle way. Drawing from William James, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead, he contrasts the absolutist claims of both canonists and anti-canonists with a fallibilist approach and argues for a more pragmatic canon that is normative and always in need of renovation. A wide variety of voices are heard in Allan's conversation about the nature and meaning of an education canon, including philosophers Aristotle, Descartes, Arthur Lovejoy, Hannah Arendt, Spengler, Emerson, Lyotard, and Rorty. Contemporary voices include Eva Brann, Charles Anderson, Francis Oakley, Martha Nussbaum, Gerald Graff, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Bill Readings.

Author Biography:

George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form, published by SUNY Press.

Release date NZ

February 26th, 2004

Author

George Allan

Series

SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought

Pages

262

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

Total Illustrations: 0

Dimensions

152x229x25

ISBN-13

9780791459904

Product ID

11837938

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