Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher EducationSince Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved the status of a minor classic. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious teaching and research in the humanities at American universities Mr. Kimball names his enemies precisely....This book will breed fistfights.--Roger Rosenblatt, New York Times Book Review. All persons serious about education should see it.--Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind |
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Page 146
... notion of the home - more , the traditional notion of man- otiose . " With the scientifically orchestrated horror of Hiroshima and the consciousness of the human brutality of the Holocaust , " Mr. Eisenman gravely intones , " it became ...
... notion of the home - more , the traditional notion of man- otiose . " With the scientifically orchestrated horror of Hiroshima and the consciousness of the human brutality of the Holocaust , " Mr. Eisenman gravely intones , " it became ...
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... notion of post- modern architecture in favor of a post - humanist architecture , one that would stress not only the dispersion of the subject and the force of social regulation , but also the effect of such decentering on the entire notion ...
... notion of post- modern architecture in favor of a post - humanist architecture , one that would stress not only the dispersion of the subject and the force of social regulation , but also the effect of such decentering on the entire notion ...
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... notion that ( to adapt yet another popular formulation ) the limits of language ex- haustively define the limits of the world is an unquestioned as- sumption in the all - questioning precincts of literary academia . There was a time ...
... notion that ( to adapt yet another popular formulation ) the limits of language ex- haustively define the limits of the world is an unquestioned as- sumption in the all - questioning precincts of literary academia . There was a time ...
Contents
The Assault on the Canon | 13 |
Speaking Against the Humanities | 51 |
The October Syndrome | 94 |
Copyright | |
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