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...their owners with invaluable ability to sift the plausible from the implausible in argument and general life. Somewhere, somehow, to society's considerable shame and disadvantage, this admirable educational principle has become increasingly disregarded or forgotten. In its place we find the widespread fostering and promotion of fashionable but generally ephemeral orthodoxies. Today entry to our centres of higher learning often tacitly demands compliance with such orthodoxies in advance.
In his latest book, the American cultural commentator Roger Kimball describes how the once noble discipline of art history has fallen under the almost total domination of postmodernist fashions--in America at least. Sadly, the dissemination of fashionable, postmodernist orthodoxies had also largely supplanted the traditional teaching of aesthetic judgment even at London's world-famous Courtauld Institute when I applied to do some work there twenty-five years ago. I have some degree of evidence that the practices Kimball describes in American universities are widely replicated in Australia, Britain and other Western countries. Indeed, as a...
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