Beyond modernism and postmodernism : essays on the politics of culture / / Maurice R. Berube

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973692303321
• Autore: Berube Maurice R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, CT ; ; London, : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
• ISBN: 9781429475297; 1429475293; 9780313073564; 0313073562
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Culture - Study and teaching; Politics and culture; Postmodernism - United States; Educational change - United States; Intellectuals - United States - Political activity; United States Intellectual life; United States Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-136) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Connections -- PART I INTELLECT -- 1. The Rise of the Postmodern Intellectual -- 2. The Socially Conscious University -- PART II SCHOOLING -- 3. The Education of Diane Ravitch -- 4. The Politics of School Reform -- 5. The Politics of National Standards -- 6. The Post-Millennium Blues: Is It "The End of Knowledge," Too? -- 7. A Teacher's Legacy -- PART III CULTURE -- 8. Arts and Education -- 9. His Greatest Paintings Produce a "Spiritual Calm"- One That Jackson Pollock Was Never Able to Share -- 10. A Postmodern Jesus -- 11. Reflections on a Modernist Canon -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.