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Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education
Engelsk Hardback
Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education
Engelsk Hardback

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The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity of mind. Liberal democracy, devoted to securing individual natural rights, purports to be the regime of liberty par excellence.  Since both liberal education and liberal democracy aim to set individuals free, they would seem to be harmonious and mutually reinforcing. But there are reasons to doubt that liberal education can be the civic education liberal democracy needs.  If liberal education is in tension with all instrumental purposes, how does it stand toward the goal of preparing the kind of citizens liberal democracy needs? The book’s contributors are critical of the way higher education typically interprets its responsibility for educating citizens, and they link those failures to academia’s neglect of certain founding principles of the American political tradition and of the traditional liberal arts ideal.   
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
190
ISBN-13:
9781498502467
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1498502466
Udg. Dato:
24 dec 2016
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
24 dec 2016
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge