Tenured Radicals, SIGNED & INSCRIBED First Edition, Kimball to literary critic Renee Winegarten (1990)

Kimball, Roger

ISBN 10: 0060161906 / ISBN 13: 9780060161903

Published by Harpercollins, 1990

About this Item

Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, dated October 1990, shortly after first publication. Inscribed to Renee Winegarten, the literary critic and longtime contributor to Commentary, The New Criterion and the New York Review of Books, a genuine association copy between two writers working the same intellectual territory, not a signature to an unknown recipient.

The book itself remains a key text in the culture-war-in-academia canon, still cited alongside Bloom's Closing of the American Mind. Condition as photographed, inscription clear and legible.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1784072004385

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tenured Radicals, SIGNED & INSCRIBED First Edition, Kimball to literary critic Renee Winegarten (1990)
• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060161906
• ISBN 13: 9780060161903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 521.631 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Kimball takes educators and institutions to task for what he sees as their complicity in today's educational disarray and their desire to expand the canon of literature to include a wider cultural array

Reviews

Kimball, managing editor of The New Criterion, has written a controversial expose of the politicization of college/university humanities programs. He has named individuals, symposia, schools, groups, etc., he feels are destroying the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic studies. His thesis is that there has been a blurring of the social sciences and humanities by those who were involved in and influenced by the radicalism of the 1960s. Kimball sees courses in literature becoming amateur experiences in sociological and/or anthropological sermonizing. The book is in the same vein as Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind ( LJ 5/1/87), Eric Hirsch's Cultural Literacy ( LJ 6/1/87), and Page Smith's Killing the Spirit ( LJ 1/90). It should be of interest to university libraries serving graduate students and scholars of the humanities concerned with the status quo and future of their disciplines.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Community Coll. Lib., Miss.
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