Maurice R. Berube

Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Politics of Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Berube examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America. In a wide-ranging series of essays from the rise of the postmodern intellectual to a modernist appreciation of the spiritual quality of the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Berube stakes out his claim that all areas of human endeavor are rooted in a politics of culture.

The essay collection is divided into three sections: The first two essays deal with the postmodern intellectual and the corporate university; the second section plumbs the depth of a conservative school reform movement and asks whether we have not reached an end to education reform. The last section contains essays pertaining to precarious state of arts education in the schools, reflections on a modernist literary canon, the contribution of Pollock and plumbing alternative views of Jesus as the penultimate revolutionary. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with cultural studies and education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313073564
• Artikelnr.: 68529037

Autorenporträt

MAURICE R. BERUBE is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Old Dominion University. He is the author of American Presidents and Education (1991), Teacher Politics: The Influence of Unions (1988), and Education and Poverty: Effective Schooling in the United States and Cuba (1984), and many more, all published by Greenwood.

Inhaltsangabe

Intellect The Rise of the Postmodern Intellectual The Socially Conscious
University Schooling The Education of Diane Ravitch The Politics of School
Reform The Politics of National Standards The Post-Millenium Blues: Is it
"The End of Knowledge," Too? A Teacher's Legacy Culture Arts and Education
His Greatest Paintings Produce a "Spiritual Calm"-One that Jackson Pollock
was Never Able to Share A Postmodern Jesus Reflections on a Modernist Canon