Description: Drawing from the philosophy of Wittgenstein to craft a cogent, inspired argument, Churchill insists on the liberal arts' indispensable role, providing in this book a clarion call to politicians, university administrators, and all Americans to recognize and actively support and nurture the liberal arts.
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The field of higher education is currently engaged in a highly contentious debate over the value of a liberal arts education. Churchill wants his readers to consider, to deliberate in his words, the question of the value and the meaning of the liberal arts from a new angle, one which allows for vagueness, uncertainly, and change. His book meets his goal in an elegant and thought-provoking fashion.
--Catherine Berheid, Skidmore College, included in Sociology: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity