The Crisis of Western Education (The Works of Christopher Dawson)

Contents

Contents introduction by Glenn W. Olsen vii acknowledgments xxi part i: the history of liberal education in the west i. The origins of the Western Tradition of education 3 ii. The age of the universities and the rise of Vernacular Culture 11 iii. The age of humanism 21 iv. The influence of science and Technology 33 v. nationalism and the education of the People 46 vi. The development of the american educational Tradition 54 vii. Catholic education and Culture in america 68 viii. education and the state 77 part ii: the situation of christian education in the modern world ix. The study of Western Culture 91 x. The Case for the study of Christian Culture 99 xi. The study of Christian Culture in the Catholic College 111 xii. The Theological foundations of Christian Culture 120 part iii: western man and the technological order xiii. The religious Vacuum in Modern Culture 129 xiv. american Culture and the Liberal ideology 138 xv. Western Man and the Technological order 145 index of subjects 159 index of names 165 vi Contents ...