Higher Education in the Making - Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon

Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.

About the author

George Allan is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Dickinson College. He is the author of many books, including The Importances of the Past: A Meditation on the Authority of Tradition; The Realizations of the Future: An Inquiry into the Authority of Praxis; The Patterns of the Present: Interpreting the Authority of Form; and Higher Education in the Making: Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon, all also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: George Allan, Allan George
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2004
• EAN: 9780791459904
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5990-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Suny Constructive Postmodern T; SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, Pragmatism, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -