Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

ISBN: 0300143141

Author: Anthony T. Kronman

Contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned by college and university teachers. Kronman argues that in particular, teachers of the humanities, who once felt a special responsibility to guide their students in exploring the question of what living is for, have lost confidence in their authority to do so. And they have lost sight of the question itself in the blinding fog of political correctness that has dominated their disciplines for the past forty years. From publisher description.