Culture and the Radical Conscience
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ISBN: 0674179668 / Publisher: Harvard University Press, January 1973
Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical...
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Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical assault on the authority of culture first challenged the classical conception of higher education with imperious demands for relevance and ideological correctness. Since then, campus unrest on the part of students has given way to a radicalized faculty characterized by contempt for high culture, fetishization of pop culture, and increasing absorption by feminism and identity politics.
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