I've been through all that as well and the humanities academic scene too. My life has always been lived in contexts that are on both sides of the culture wars since the 1970s. As a result, in a religious-dominant context I argue for the truths and insights of supposedly secular perspectives. And then I switch to bat the other way as well…
I've been through all that as well and the humanities academic scene too. My life has always been lived in contexts that are on both sides of the culture wars since the 1970s. As a result, in a religious-dominant context I argue for the truths and insights of supposedly secular perspectives. And then I switch to bat the other way as well. The categories and divisions themselves are false — left/right, rural/urban, religious/non- But you cannot get people to a point of pluralist engagement and capacity for sustained cognitive dissonance through any curriculum. Polemic won't work either, but much of what Vance says is true. Numerous criticisms like his exist from many different perspectives. Americans have lost the capacity to value their unresolvable differences as a dialogue where people can and do change — not because there is one true path we should all reach but because we need to work out our own paths and some collective compromises.
This should be about trust building and relationships that have been steadily lost for many reasons, but at CCCU institutions, it is baked in out of their fear of being wrong / facilitating people exercising their freedom to embrace the wrong theology, convert to something else, etc. They should be places where at least a visiting distinguished atheist Jewish/Catholic Marxist professor exists. The people who want that job would be incredibly qualified and fun people.
I've been through all that as well and the humanities academic scene too. My life has always been lived in contexts that are on both sides of the culture wars since the 1970s. As a result, in a religious-dominant context I argue for the truths and insights of supposedly secular perspectives. And then I switch to bat the other way as well. The categories and divisions themselves are false — left/right, rural/urban, religious/non- But you cannot get people to a point of pluralist engagement and capacity for sustained cognitive dissonance through any curriculum. Polemic won't work either, but much of what Vance says is true. Numerous criticisms like his exist from many different perspectives. Americans have lost the capacity to value their unresolvable differences as a dialogue where people can and do change — not because there is one true path we should all reach but because we need to work out our own paths and some collective compromises.
This should be about trust building and relationships that have been steadily lost for many reasons, but at CCCU institutions, it is baked in out of their fear of being wrong / facilitating people exercising their freedom to embrace the wrong theology, convert to something else, etc. They should be places where at least a visiting distinguished atheist Jewish/Catholic Marxist professor exists. The people who want that job would be incredibly qualified and fun people.