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Tenured radicals : how politics has corrupted our higher education / Roger Kimball.

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Tenured radicals : how politics has corrupted our higher education / Roger Kimball.

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Tenured radicals : how politics has corrupted our higher education / Roger Kimball.

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Tenured radicals : how politics has corrupted our higher education / Roger Kimball.

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Publisher

Chicago : Elephant Paperbacks, 1998.

Date

1998.

Call Numbers

N378.0120973/1

Record Identifier

74Vvr5jyPgvA

MMS ID

991011500519702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xix, 246 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

Tenured Radicals: An Update, 1998 -- The Assault on the Canon -- Speaking Against the Humanities -- The October Syndrome -- The Case of Paul de Man -- Deconstruction Comes to Architecture -- The New Sophistry -- The Real Crisis in the Humanities.

Publication information

Publisher

Chicago : Elephant Paperbacks, 1998.

Edition

Rev. ed., with a new introd. by the author, 1st Elephant pbk. ed.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

1998.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied in American universities. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. In this new edition, completely reset, Roger Kimball...

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Tenured radicals : how politics has corrupted our higher education / Roger Kimball.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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N378.0120973/1

Record Identifier

74Vvr5jyPgvA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvr5jyPgvA

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ISBN

1566631955 (alk. paper)

9781566631952 (alk. paper)

DDC

378.0120973

MMS ID

991011500519702626

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