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Humanism Betrayed
Graham Good
其他書名
Theory, Ideology, and Culture in the Contemporary University
出版McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2001
主題Education / GeneralEducation / Aims & ObjectivesEducation / Schools / Levels / HigherEducation / Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsHistory / Australia & New ZealandPhilosophy / Metaphysics
ISBN07735218609780773521865
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=11BlQoDnBoAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The intellectual trends Good discusses include what he calls the New Sectarianism, which rejects individuality in favour of collective identities based on race, gender, and sexual preference; Presentism, which rejects the notion of history as a continuous narrative in favour of seeing the past as interpretable in any way that suits the political interests of the present; and a "hermeneutic of suspicion," in which literary texts are seen as masks for discreditable political motives. Good demonstrates that these trends culminate in the prison-like "carceral" vision of Michel Foucault and his followers: the view that culture is ideology and that culture does not free humans but incarcerates them. Good contrasts this view with the liberal vision of culture and society represented by Northrop Frye, concluding with an analysis of the relationship between anti-humanist theory among academics and the managerial practices of university administrations, which, he argues, neglect or reject basic humanistic values such as free individuality, aesthetic greatness, and autonomous inquiry.