TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Chapter One: The Modern Dialog
Introduction ......1
A. Part One: Techno-Scientific Society .......9
Background ..................................................9
Education: A Question of Purpose .11
Education in the Twentieth Century
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16
B. Part
Two: Views of the Crisis
.
..
25
20th Century Literature
...25
The Crisis from the
Perspectives of Other Milieus
37
A Crisis of Metaphysics
.42
II. Chapter Two: Triumph of The New Learning
Introduction 47
A. Part One: Chaos to Crisis.. ....49
Fourteenth Century Chaos .....49
Famine and Plague .....50
War .....52
New Non-Military Technologies ...57
Taxes, Bad Government, and Insurrection ....60
Schism in the Church .....63
The Rise of Capitalism ...67
Fifteenth Century Crisis . 73
B. Part Two: The Humanist Response .......77
Italian Humanism ... 77
Pedagogy of the Early Humanists .. 94
Lorenzos Brand of Humanism ....100
Final Thoughts on The New Learning .101
III. Chapter Three: Enlightenment and the Birth of Romanticism
Introduction ..105
A. Part
One: From Renaissance to the Age of
Reason
....112
The Northern
Renaissance
...
115
Culture of the
Baroque
.117
Church Decline in
The Scientific
Revolution
................121
The Enlightenment: Sciences Next
Step
................124
The Triumph of Materialism ... 137
The Crisis of the Eighteenth Century ...139
B. Part Two: The Romantic Response .141
The Birth of Romanticism ...............141
Rousseau and
Metaphysics
..148
The Pedagogy of
Rousseau
..151
The Role of the Humanities in
Education
................164
The Renaissance
Revisited
..............176
Rousseaus Legacy ...............178
IV. Chapter Four: A Case Study in American Transcendentalism
Introduction ..181
A. Part One: Nineteenth Century American Crisis .. 187
The Romantic Connection ...190
The Transcendentalist Response ..195
Metaphysics Return in Transcendentalism ..198
B. Part Two: Transcendentalist Pedagogy ...206
Amos Bronson Alcott ..219
Margaret Fuller ............231
Henry David Thoreau ..235
The Transcendentalist Legacy .239
Conclusion ...242
V. Chapter Five: Wisdom for Our Times
Introduction ..245
A. Part One: The Modern Crisis from an Educational Perspective .251
Lessons from the Past ..258
Twentieth Century Humanist Contributions:
Adler, Dawson, and Schwehn .. ....268
B. Part Two: Conclusions . ...278
Higher Education on the Local Level . .285
Model Humanities Programs for the Twenty-first Century . 287
The New Intellectualism:
Defining Humanism for the Twenty-First Century .293
Final Thoughts .299
Chapter Five Charts .302
Appendix
Appendix A: Discussion of Jungs Psychosis ..309
Appendix B: Federal Spending on K-12 Education ....310
Bibliography
311