The Truth of Things
by Montgomery, MarionFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Spence Pub
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Summary
Transcending the standard critique of the politically correct university, Marion Montgomery reveals the ancient sources of our educational chaos. There can be no reform, he insists, without a new openness to the "truth of things, " which marks the character and work of the good teacher.
Author Biography
Marion Montgomery, scholar, critic, and award-winning poet and novelist, is one of America's preeminent men of letters. From 1954 until 1987 he taught English literature at the University of Georgia and became an authority on Eliot and the Southern Agrarians. A prolific author, he has published twenty books--including a monumental three-volume cultural critique, The Prophetic Poet and the Spirit of the Age--and some 250 articles. His work appears frequently in First Things, Crisis, Modern Age, and a host of other journals. A frequent campus lecturer, Mr. Montgomery lives and writes in Crawford, Georgia.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Then | |
| The Segregation That Is Needed | p. 35 |
| The Fallacy of Practicality | p. 50 |
| Now | |
| Wanted: A Better Reason as Guide | p. 77 |
| Scalawags and Carpetbaggers: Higher Education as a Royal Nonsuch | p. 88 |
| The Journey Toward Wisdom | p. 141 |
| The First and Last Best Hope for "Higher Education" | p. 168 |
| In Pursuit of the Multifoliate Rose | p. 186 |
| Now and Then | |
| Modern, Modernism, and Modernists | p. 239 |
| In Wandering Mazes Lost | p. 284 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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