Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
List of Abbreviations | p. xxi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Problem That Is the Present | p. 13 |
School Deform | p. 15 |
The Race to Nowhere | p. 15 |
The Less You Know | p. 20 |
"Untimely" Concepts | p. 29 |
Too Little Intellect in Matters of Soul | p. 33 |
The School as a Business | p. 36 |
The Figure of the Schoolteacher | p. 39 |
From Autobiography to Allegory | p. 43 |
To Run the Course: Currere | p. 43 |
Allegories-of-the-Present | p. 49 |
Allegory as Montage | p. 56 |
Why Weimar? | p. 62 |
The Regressive Moment: The Past in the Present | p. 67 |
The Defeat of Democracy | p. 69 |
The Terrible Question | p. 69 |
States of Emergency | p. 72 |
The "Highly Fissured" Republic | p. 76 |
The Regimented Mass | p. 79 |
Art as Allegory | p. 83 |
Economic Crisis | p. 87 |
The Great Age of Educational Reform | p. 91 |
Correctional Education | p. 95 |
Mortal Educational Combat | p. 102 |
Gracious Submission | p. 102 |
The Racial Politics of Curriculum Reform | p. 109 |
Students and the Civil Rights Movement | p. 114 |
Freedom Schools | p. 120 |
The Gender Politics of Curriculum Reform | p. 124 |
The Progressive Moment: The Future in the Present | p. 133 |
The Dissolution of Subjectivity in Cyberculture | p. 135 |
Dream, Thought, Fantasy | p. 135 |
"Let Them Eat Data" | p. 140 |
The Death of the Subject? | p. 143 |
Avatars | p. 147 |
Breaking News | p. 152 |
Intimacy and Abjection | p. 156 |
The Future in the Past | p. 162 |
The Technology of Cultural Crisis | p. 162 |
The Degradation of the Present | p. 166 |
A Philosophy of Technology | p. 170 |
Technology and Soul | p. 173 |
The Analytic Moment: Understanding the Present | p. 179 |
Anti-Intellectualism and Complicated Conversation | p. 181 |
Anti-Intellectualism | p. 181 |
An Unrehearsed Intellectual Adventure | p. 188 |
Curriculum as Complicated Conversation Is Not (Only) Classroom Discourse | p. 193 |
Is it Too Late? | p. 198 |
The Synthetical Moment: Reactivating the Past, Understanding the Present, Finding the Future | p. 205 |
Subjective and Social Reconstruction | p. 207 |
A Struggle within Each Person | p. 207 |
Reactivating the Past | p. 212 |
Understanding the Present | p. 218 |
Finding the Future | p. 226 |
References | p. 239 |
Index | p. 259 |
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