A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of the Mind ( Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2019, £75.00). Pp. 188. isbn 978 1 6401 4023 3

Meehan sees this Emersonian rhetoric as foundational to a generalized liberal-arts model of university education that emphasized teaching over the production of new knowledge. By showing how an increased culture of disciplinary training both grows out of and refutes an Emersonian model of “liberal-a...

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Published in:Journal of American Studies 2021, Vol.55 (1), p.210-211
Main Author: Walton, Georgia
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Double consciousness
Education
Higher education
Literary devices
Pedagogy
Philosophy
Rhetoric
Teaching
Values
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Summary:Meehan sees this Emersonian rhetoric as foundational to a generalized liberal-arts model of university education that emphasized teaching over the production of new knowledge. By showing how an increased culture of disciplinary training both grows out of and refutes an Emersonian model of “liberal-arts” education, this chapter offers a fascinating insight into the development of the modern university as it exists today. [...]the book creates its own Emersonian “double consciousness” in its combined focus on rhetoric and the ideals of freethinking.
ISSN:0021-8758
1469-5154
DOI:10.1017/S0021875820001541