Research Catalog

Title

Beyond alienation; a philosophy of education for the crisis of democracy.

Author

Becker, Ernest.

Publication

New York, G. Braziller [1967]

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Details

Description

xiv, 305 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Education > Philosophy
• Education
• Education
• education

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 295-300.

Contents

I. The problem : 1. The problem of the unity of knowledge in the modern world -- 2. The Conservatives : The "new humanism" movement ; The great books program ; The counterassault of the critics -- 3. The Progressives : The tragic paradox: education and the state ; Ortega y Gasset's reminder ; H.G, Well's "World Brain" -- 4. The central problem clarified : The historical moral problem ; The need for a secular moral creed -- II. The solution : 5. Alienation: a spirit in search of substance : The ever-present eighteenth century -- 6. The scientific dimension: the solution to the riddle of human nature : Psychology ; Sociology -- 7. The scientific dimension : Psychiatry -- 8. Toward the theological dimension : Naturalistic ontology: how life achieves maximum meaning and conviction ; The need for a critical individual and social aesthetics -- 9. The theological dimension : The inadequacy of the secular ideal ; Freedom to do what? -- 10. A theory of alienation as a philosophy of education : The natural solution of the problem of liberal education ; The natural solution of the problem of education versus the state -- III. The special problem of the curriculum : 11. The orientation -- 12. The general body of knowledge : The individual dimension of alienation ; The social and historical dimension of alienation ; The theological dimension of alienation -- 13. The place of the curriculum in the university : The principle of the economy of knowledge.

ISBN

• 0807604119
• 9780807604113

LCCN

67012951

OCLC

• ocm00174082
• 174082
• SCSB-208697

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library