The Eclipse of Excellence

It is...a refreshing and promising event when an accomplished young philosopher and dedicated teacher like Prof. Cahn turns his mind to the present crisis in higher education and concentrates on some home truths. Prof. Cahn has his eye on the future, not the past. He is as full of divine discontent as contemporaries of his who have acquired a certain flash fame, and he has much more humility. But most important of all, he is concentrating, in this wise and unpretentious little book, on the staple realities of teaching and liberal learning rather than on labels, packaging, cant slogans and messianic expectations. Here is a book which it is a pleasure to commend as a restorative of common sense and, hopefully, of a sense of common educational purposes. Charles Frankel in the Foreword.

About the author

Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs, then as acting president. He is the author or editor of more than seventy books.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Cahn, Steven M. Cahn
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.02.2004
• EAN: 9781592445349
• ISBN: 978-1-59244-534-9
• No. of pages: 56
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 97 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories