Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441797261 (1441797262)
Publish date: May 9th 2006
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
What a stupid, dull concept, stripped of context and life, disconnected, like the fact of existence for anyone who would try to follow it.
To some degree, E. D. Hirsch’s contention that we need a type of “cultural literacy” or common coinage to communicate with one another intelligently—his notion of the liberal arts—is akin to applying a cosmetic. Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams) would have viewed Hirsch's project skepticall...
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