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Tables of Contents for The Tyranny of Relativism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
xi
4
Acknowledgments
xv
2
Introduction
xvii
PART ONE: RELATIVISM TO OPPORTUNISM
3
18
1 Riding Relativism's Wave
3
18
i Them and Us
4
2
ii Just Us -- or Just Them
6
5
iii Mary and Martha
11
10
PART TWO: ASPECTS OF THE DOMINANT MOOD
21
172
2 Distortions of Education
21
34
i The Climate
22
4
ii Schools
26
11
iii Further Education: the Cinderella
37
3
iv Higher Education: the Universities
40
9
v Adult Education Today
49
6
3 The Arts: Intellectual, Artistic and Academic Relativism
55
41
i The Peculiar Debate; Communitarian Art
55
10
ii Reading
65
10
iii Literary Essences
75
7
iv Academic Responses: Meaning and Modern Theory
82
6
v Literary Influences
88
8
4 Angles on Mass and Popular Culture
96
18
i Characteristics of Mass Culture
97
5
ii Elements of Popular Culture
102
12
5 The Betrayal of Broadcasting
114
43
i The Public Service and Professionalism
114
12
ii Radio
126
7
iii Television
133
5
iv Broadcasting and the Arts
138
6
v The 1990 Broadcasting Act and After
144
8
vi Conclusion
152
5
6 Misuses of Language
157
15
i Linguistic Tics
158
2
ii Dodging Reality and Judgment
160
3
iii Language and Ideology
163
3
iv Hospital Kindly Gentility
166
1
v Embarrassed by the Words
167
5
7 Ways of Looking: Compass Bearings in a Wide-Open Society?
172
21
i The Need for a Discipline
172
2
ii Where Did It All Begin?
174
3
iii Theory? Naturally
177
2
iv Elements of Cultural Reading
179
3
v Some Rules of Thumb
182
7
vi Instances of Surprise
189
4
PART THREE: GRIT ON THE FLYWHEEL
193
90
8 Home Thoughts: Old-Style Checks and Balances
193
5
9 From Class to Status: Resistance by Transference
198
15
i The Survival of Class?
198
4
ii Status and Life-Style
202
7
iii Piggybacks, Partial Profiles and Emotional Energy
209
4
10 Patrons and Sponsors
213
30
i Why Give at all -- in an `Open' Society?
214
4
ii Class, Education, the Arts; and Public Duty
218
5
iii Grass-roots, `Ethnic Arts' and Their Claims
223
1
iv Confused Alarms of Struggle and Fight
224
2
v Patronage and Sponsorship
226
5
vi Who Should Get What, and How?
231
6
vii Spreading Your Arts Abroad
237
6
11 Effects of Mass Media: Kinds of Censorship -- a Baker's Dozen
243
25
i Counterweights and Contradictions Again
244
2
ii Effects, Broadcasting and Elsewhere
246
3
iii Kinds of Censorship
249
17
iv `Am I My Brother's Keeper?
266
2
12 Ancestral Voices: Myths and Mottoes to Live By
268
15
i Deep Springs
268
5
ii Sophisticated Memories
273
2
iii Three Types of Aphorism
275
3
iv Walking on the Water
278
5
PART FOUR: WHO NEEDS A CLERISY?
283
38
13 Democratic Representations and Democratic Spirits
283
17
i Confrontation, Consensus and Cohesion
285
11
ii Jude and His Kind
296
4
14 Diverse Voices, and Opinion-Formers
300
21
i A Mixed Bunch, Mainly Official
302
3
ii Reviewers; and Some Critics
305
6
iii No Committees, Please, We're English
311
1
iv Jobs for Intellectuals?
312
9
PART FIVE: A SUMMING-UP; AND A VERY QUALIFIED PROSPECTUS
321
20
15 Where are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?
321
20
i Relativism Rampant
321
8
ii Old Strengths
329
3
iii New Opportunities
332
3
iv What to Do About It? or: Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep?
335
6
Index
341