The Woe-Is-Us Books

  By Stanley Fish Last week, as I was preparing a presentation for still another conference on the fate of the liberal arts in our time, two things happened. The first was that I read or re-read a bunch of recent books (mostly short and punchy) on the subject — “Crisis On Campus” (Mark C. Taylor), “Not For Profit” (Martha Nussbaum), “Youth in a Suspect Society” (Henry Giroux), “Why Choose the Liberal Arts?” (Mark William Roche), “Debating Moral Education” (Elizabeth Kiss and Peter Euben), “The Marketplace of Ideas” (Louis Menand), “Educating Citizens” (Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, Jason Stephens […]
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Tags: adjunct Andrew Hacker Anne Colby Cary Nelson Claudia Dreifus Crisis On Campus David Horowitz Debating Moral Education Educating Citizens Elizabeth Beaumont Elizabeth Kiss Henry Giroux Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — And What We Can Do About It Jason Stephens Lee S. Shulman liberal arts education Louis Menand Mark C. Taylor Mark William Roche Martha Nussbaum No University Is An Island Not For Profit NYTimes.com Peter Euben Ralston College Reforming Our Universities Save the World On Your Own Time Stanley Fish Stephen Blackwood The Marketplace of Ideas Thomas Ehrlich university Why Choose the Liberal Arts? Youth in a Suspect Society
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