Kernan Alvin: In Plato's Cave

Name: In Plato's Cave
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Author: Kernan Alvin

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Author: Kernan Alvin
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Code: 72590

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In Plato's Cave

Kernan Alvin

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Alvin Kernan: In Plato's Cave

In this delightful and heartfelt memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished career in some of the most hallowed halls of higher education. With his usual wit and insight, Kernan recounts his experiences at Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton in the company of an array of fascinating colleagues. And he describes from an insider's point of view how colleges and universities were transformed in radical ways in the second half of the twentieth century. Against the backdrop of what it was like to work and teach in turbulent decades of change, Kernan details the broader educational battles in which he was embroiled. He discusses the fight for equal opportunities for women and minorities; questioning administrative and intellectual authority; emergence of deconstructive types of theory; technological shift from printed to electronic information; politicization of class; and much more. His vivid account is not just a unique personal story, it is a thought-provoking history full of insight into what was won and lost in the culture wars.

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