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Peters, Michael A. – Critical Studies in Education, 2008
This paper examines the neoconservative critique of the university and particularly the attack on multiculturalism and postmodernism that initiated the culture wars. It seeks to explain these developments by an analysis of the thought of Leo Strauss. The paper begins by providing an introduction to US neoconservatism and latest challenges to it…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Postmodernism, Humanities, Politics of Education