Maurice R. Berube, "Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: Essays on the Politics of Culture"

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Maurice R. Berube, "Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism: Essays on the Politics of Culture"

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Berube examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America. In a wide-ranging series of essays from the rise of the postmodern intellectual to a modernist appreciation of the spiritual quality of the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Berube stakes out his claim that all areas of human endeavor are rooted in a politics of culture.

The essay collection is divided into three sections: The first two essays deal with the postmodern intellectual and the corporate university; the second section plumbs the depth of a conservative school reform movement and asks whether we have not reached an end to education reform. The last section contains essays pertaining to precarious state of arts education in the schools, reflections on a modernist literary canon, the contribution of Pollock and plumbing alternative views of Jesus as the penultimate revolutionary. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with cultural studies and education.

Review
"In this book Mo Berube has managed to link education and cultural studies in a graceful and convincing way. At a time when many in both fields are content to remain ensconced within the boundaries of their domains Berube has the ambition to cross borders while retaining an acute responsibility to high quality scholarship and commentary."-Stanley Aronowitz Distinguished Professor of Sociology Graduate City University of New York

About the Author
MAURICE R. BERUBE is Eminent Scholar of Education at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author, co-author, or editor of nine earlier books, including Eminent Educators (Greenwood Press, 2000) and American School Reform (Praeger, 1994).