The Dissenting Academy: Essays Criticizing The Teaching Of The Humanities In American Universities
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In an era of mounting cultural and political tension, The Dissenting Academy arrives as a provocative intellectual intervention, assembling some of the sharpest critical voices of the 1960s to interrogate the very institutions charged with preserving humanistic thought. Edited by Theodore Roszak — the celebrated cultural historian and author of The Making of a Counter Culture — this landmark anthology presents a chorus of dissent from scholars who argue that American universities have surrendered their moral and intellectual independence to the imperatives of corporate power, Cold War ideology, and bureaucratic conformity. The essays gathered here do not merely critique; they indict, challenging the academy's complicity in a system that, in the contributors' view, had reduced the humanities to instruments of political and economic consensus. Roszak and his fellow dissenters write with urgency and conviction, employing a tone that is at once rigorously academic and passionately polemical. A foundational text of radical pedagogy and the counterculture's engagement with higher education, The Dissenting Academy raises questions about the purpose of learning, the responsibilities of scholars, and the cost of institutional silence — questions that remain as unsettling today as when they were first posed.
Author: Theodore Roszak
Format: Paperback
Genre: Essays
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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In an era of mounting cultural and political tension, The Dissenting Academy arrives as a provocative intellectual intervention, assembling some of the sharpest critical voices of the 1960s to interrogate the very institutions charged with preserving humanistic thought. Edited by Theodore Roszak — the celebrated cultural historian and author of The Making of a Counter Culture — this landmark anthology presents a chorus of dissent from scholars who argue that American universities have surrendered their moral and intellectual independence to the imperatives of corporate power, Cold War ideology, and bureaucratic conformity. The essays gathered here do not merely critique; they indict, challenging the academy's complicity in a system that, in the contributors' view, had reduced the humanities to instruments of political and economic consensus. Roszak and his fellow dissenters write with urgency and conviction, employing a tone that is at once rigorously academic and passionately polemical. A foundational text of radical pedagogy and the counterculture's engagement with higher education, The Dissenting Academy raises questions about the purpose of learning, the responsibilities of scholars, and the cost of institutional silence — questions that remain as unsettling today as when they were first posed.