...William P. Caferro This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Inside the Humanities Classroom” describes the experience of teaching a single class meeting of the year-long Western Civilization survey course at Vanderbilt University. The essay examines both...

...Lynn Hunt This essay—a contribution to “Inside the Humanities Classroom,” a seriatim symposium in Common Knowledge —is a first-person account of the development and teaching of an online version of a UCLA course on the history of Western civilization (1715 to the present). The author finds...

....” But what, Eliot asks, does it mean to “will civilization”? From this angle, Babbitt has dispatched Norton's “Western civilization” only to replace it with a more amorphous, if more inclusive, ideal. The escalating abstraction yields an escalating sterility. Adler ardently insists that Babbitt “wanted...

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... to the Western model of lib- eral democracy and the American-style market economy. “Democratic capital- ism” is the genuine core of modernity, which by its own inner logic must spread through and refashion the world. Thus, a universal civilization will arise...

... as one of triumph for the dissidents and for their values which, at last, appeared to be realized. Of course, matters are rarely so simple, and debate ensued rapidly, among the dissidents themselves, and also among their Western interpreters, regard- COMMON...

... from civil society, on the other hand, gradually came to seem a matter of course. It is one of the paradoxes of Western political history that absolute monarchy and COMMON KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE COMMON the distinction between state and civil society share an origin and a political logic...

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...) Here, I would argue, is the basic Western notion of liberal democratic constitu- tionalism. Claims like Murphy’s comprise what most of our compatriots conceive of when they refer to constitutionalism, and it is the account that is taught to stu- dents of American...