Lawrence W. Levine (1) (1933–2006)
Autore di Highbrow/Lowbrow : The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Levine, Lawrence W.
- Data di nascita
- 1933-02-27
- Data di morte
- 2006-10-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
California, USA - Istruzione
- City College of New York (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD) - Attività lavorative
- History Professor, George Mason University
History professor, University of California, Berkeley - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
MacArthur Fellowship (1983)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1994)
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- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 927
- Popolarità
- #27,687
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 9
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 1
Discussing the development of higher education, Levine writes, “The passions that burned in the administrators and faculty of American colleges had more to do with preservation and nurturing than discovery and advancement” (pg. 39). To this end, “Academic history in the United States… has not been a long happy voyage in a stable vessel characterized by blissful consensus about which subjects should form the indisputable curriculum; it has been marked by prolonged and often acrimonious struggle and debate, not very different from that which characterizes the academe in our own day” (pg. 43). The modern canon of literary works and the structure of western civilization courses developed during the Progressive Era and World War I as a way to Americanize students and create a homogenous culture. In turn, academe had already begun moving away from these systems by the end of World War II. Of the change, Levine writes, “Western Europe was indisputably the point of origin of some of our most influential national values, attitudes, practices, and institutions. But as anyone who studies culture seriously should know, the point of origin is only part of the story; it has to be balanced by a comprehension of what happened to the values, practices, and institutions after they arrived” (pg. 159). Detractors of a broadened curriculum “don’t mount a scholarly campaign against this work; they don’t attempt to disprove it with their own scholarship; they simply denounce it as ‘politically correct’ and ‘injurious’ to the national tradition, as ‘trivial’ distractions from the essential political and diplomatic work of historians” (pg. 165). Levine concludes, “A people’s culture is safe only insofar as it continues to ceaselessly examine and understand itself” (pg. 169).… (altro)