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008			970304s1997 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPN 98 .P67 _bC88 1997
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100	1		_aCurtler, Hugh Mercer.
245	1	0	_aRediscovering values : _bcoming to terms with Postmodernism / _cHugh Mercer Curtler.
260			_aArmonk, N.Y. : _bM.E. Sharpe, _cc1997.
300			_ax, 179 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-173) and index.
505	0		_aCh. 1. Inverted Consciousness and the Eclipse of Values -- Ch. 2. The Postmodern Challenge -- Ch. 3. The Rejection of Values -- Ch. 4. What Are Values? -- Ch. 5. Values in the Arts -- Ch. 6. Greatness in Literature -- Ch. 7. Values and the Great Conversation -- Postscript. In Defense of Values.
520			_aThis book is not a defense of "family values," but a plea to reorient our thinking, turn our attention away from ourselves, and wake up to the world and others that surround and sustain us, and at times threaten us as well. Curtler argues that the objective ground of values is to be found in the way they command our approval, regardless of cultural and personal tastes. Values, as they are conceived here, exist in the common world, and emerge and are experienced in varying social contexts. In the end, it is these values that provide a common ground between postmodern thinkers and their critics and ought properly to be the focus of educational theory.
520	8		_aThis book doesn't simply take others to task; it does present a new and interesting theory of valuation, and it speaks in a direct and non-technical way to the reader who is alarmed by the decline of values in all aspects of modern life. It offers not only a strong frontal attack on the defenders of relativity at any cost, but also a well-argued case for the objectivity of values in ethics, literature, and art.
650		0	_aPostmodernism (Literature)
650		0	_aValues in literature.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aCurtler, Hugh Mercer. _tRediscovering values. _dArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1997 _w(OCoLC)645692920
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