Daniel Cottom is David A. Burr Chair of Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of numerous books, including Ravishing Tradition: Cultural Forces and Literary History and Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment.
Why Education Is Useless Daniel Cottom "A tour de force, implicitly summarizing and commenting on more than two millennia of arguments about the function of education. Why Education Is Useless is craftily written and thoroughly enjoyable."--Michael Berube, author of The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past twenty years. Critics of education point to the Nazism of Martin Heidegger, for example, to assert the inhumanity of highly learned people; they contend that an oppressive form of identity politics has taken over the academy and complain that the art world has been overrun by culturally privileged elitists. There are always, it seems, far more reasons to disparage the ivory tower than to honor it. The uselessness of education, particularly in the humanities, is a pervasive theme in Western cultural history. With wit and precision, Why Education Is Useless engages those who attack learning by focusing on topics such as the nature of humanity, love, beauty, and identity as well as academic scandals, identity politics, multiculturalism, and the corporatization of academe. Asserting that hostility toward education cannot be dismissed as the reaction of barbarians, fools, and nihilists, Daniel Cottom brings a fresh perspective to all these topics while still making the debates about them comprehensible to those who are not academic insiders. A brilliant and provocative work of cultural argument and analysis, Why Education Is Useless brings in materials from literature, philosophy, art, film, and other fields and proceeds from the assumption that hostility to education is an extremely complex phenomenon, both historically and in contemporary American life. According to Cottom, we must understand the perdurable appeal of this antagonism if we are to have any chance of recognizing its manifestations--and countering them. Ranging in reference from Montaigne to George Bush, from Sappho to Timothy McVeigh, Why Education Is Useless is a lively investigation of a notion that has persisted from antiquity through the Renaissance and into the modern era, when the debate over the relative advantages of a liberal and a useful education first arose. Facing head on the conception of utility articulated in the nineteenth century by John Stuart Mill, and directly opposing the hostile conceptions of inutility that have been popularized in recent decades by such ideologues as Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, and John Ellis, Cottom contends that education must indeed be "useless" if it is to be worthy of its name. Daniel Cottom is David A. Burr Chair of Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of numerous books, including Ravishing Tradition: Cultural Forces and Literary History and Cannibals and Philosophers: Bodies of Enlightenment. 2003 | 256 pages | 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-3720-7 | Cloth | $45.00s | GBP29.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0168-0 | Ebook | $45.00s | GBP29.5 0 World Rights | Education Short copy: "A tour de force, implicitly summarizing and commenting on more than two millennia of arguments about the function of education."--Michael Berube, author of The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
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不敢寫書評,雖然感想有不少。在産假的第一天從書櫃中找到這本塵封已舊的“奇書”,但是看瞭序言之後,心中的疑惑升起,於是看瞭下豆瓣評分和評價,果然大傢和我的感受比較類似。於是,臭雞蛋為什麼要繼續吃下去呢?姑且隻練練筆,不要讓孕傻固著在腦殼裏瞭。 《教育為何...
評分看書名期望很高,以為內容也能一樣驚世駭俗,一讀之下失望到傢:從頭到尾也沒定義一下他所謂的教育到底包括哪些東西,似乎他所指的隻是大學裏的人文學科;也沒有論述所謂有用和沒用的判斷標準又是什麼。一邊對書呆子們冷嘲熱諷說風涼話,一邊又大段引用名人名言,使用流行的學...
評分勉強看完,其實這本書還是可以的,論述瞭很多觀點,利於我們對教育問題的本質的思考。但是很明顯,作者是“教育”的受害者。一段話都是引用的,看得我那個纍,導緻我對他引用的感興趣多過於本書。覺得作者講的是一部分現象和一些觀點,卻總還是沒怎麼能論述這個觀點。
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圖書標籤: 教育 英文 社會 教育學的革命軍 人類學
Why Education Is Useless 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載