America, the West, and Liberal Education

More than a decade ago, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind raised the philosophical stakes of the debate concerning the proper role of the study of the great books in higher education. Bloom's argument for the Western tradition employed both the rhetoric of knowledge for its own sake, and that of the broadly political uses of education.

Introduction: America, the West, and Liberal Education

1

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Ralph C. Hancock

Liberal Education and the Idea of the West

7

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Michael Allen Gillespie

Liberal Education in the Confines of the Liberal Tradition

27

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Timothy Fuller

Diversity, Canons, and Cultures

35

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Allan Bloom

Tocqueville on Liberal Education and American Democracy

55

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Ralph C. Hancock

Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Curriculum: Notes on an American Dilemma

69

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Stanley Rosen

The Young, the Good, and the West

83

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Michael Platt

The Religious University and Liberal Education

145

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James Nuechterlein

Conclusion: Of Liberty and Liberal Education

153

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Ralph C. Hancock

Index

173

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About the Contributors

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America, the West, and Liberal Education

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