فراتر از مدرنیسم و پست‌مدرنیسم: مقالاتی در مورد سیاست فرهنگ

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. Cover ......Page 1 Copyright......Page 5 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Preface: Connections......Page 10 PART I INTELLECT......Page 12 1 The Rise of the PostmodernIntellectual......Page 14 2 The Socially Conscious University......Page 32 PART II SCHOOLING......Page 52 3 The Education of Diane Ravitch......Page 54 4 The Politics of School Reform......Page 80 5 The Politics of National Standards......Page 96 6 The Post-Millennium Blues: Is It“The End of Knowledge,” Too?......Page 102 7 A Teacher’s Legacy......Page 106 PART III CULTURE......Page 108 8 Arts and Education......Page 110 9 His Greatest Paintings Produce a“Spiritual Calm”—One ThatJackson Pollock Was Never Ableto Share......Page 116 10 A Postmodern Jesus......Page 124 11 Reflections on a Modernist Canon......Page 130 Bibliography......Page 142 Index......Page 148 About the Author......Page 152 Annotation Examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America