TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marks,Jonathan
TI  - Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education 
SN  - 9780691193854
U1  - 378.73 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Education, Humanistic
KW  - EDUCATION / Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Allan Bloom
KW  - BDS movement
KW  - Closing of the American Mind
KW  - Generation Z
KW  - Jeffrey Kopstein
KW  - John Locke
KW  - Mark Edmundson
KW  - Rousseau
KW  - Tocqueville
KW  - W.E.B. Du Bois
KW  - academic freedom
KW  - academic politics
KW  - anti-Israel movement
KW  - apartheid
KW  - campus left
KW  - campus politics
KW  - censorship
KW  - civil rights movement
KW  - conservatism
KW  - conservative professors
KW  - diversity
KW  - free speech
KW  - great books
KW  - humanities
KW  - liberal arts
KW  - liberalism
KW  - political philosophy
KW  - political theory and education
KW  - politics and education
KW  - racism
KW  - student activism
KW  - student protests
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Let’s Be Reasonable --; Chapter 1 Holding Harvard to Its Word --; Chapter 2 Left, Right, Wrong --; Chapter 3 The Importance of Being Reasonable --; Chapter 4 Shaping Reasonable Students --; Chapter 5 The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement: A Case Study --; Conclusion Fighting for More of This, and Less of That --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr. believed universities were worth fighting for. Today, conservatives seem more inclined to burn them down. In Let's Be Reasonable, conservative political theorist and professor Jonathan Marks finds in liberal education an antidote to this despair, arguing that the true purpose of college is to shape people who are reasonable—and revealing why the health of our democracy is at stake.Drawing on the ideas of John Locke and other leading thinkers, Marks presents the case for why, now more than ever, conservatives must not give up on higher education. He recognizes that professors and administrators frequently adopt the language and priorities of the left, but he explains why conservative nightmare visions of liberal persecution and indoctrination bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in college classrooms. Marks examines why advocates for liberal education struggle to offer a coherent defense of themselves against their conservative critics, and demonstrates why such a defense must rest on the cultivation of reason and of pride in being reasonable.More than just a campus battlefield guide, Let's Be Reasonable recovers what is truly liberal about liberal education—the ability to reason for oneself and with others—and shows why the liberally educated person considers reason to be more than just a tool for scoring political points
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691207711?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691207711
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691207711/original
ER  -