In Plato's cave /Alvin Kernan.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1999.
- xix, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Theater and reality in Greenwich Village: Columbia, 1946 -- Other end of the log: Williams College, 194601949 -- Chatter about Shelley: Oxford, 1949-1951 -- See My George Gasciogne: Yale Graduate School, 1951-1954 -- Keeping them quiet: Yale, 1954-1960 -- Two cultures, science and literature -- Publish or perish: tenure at Yale, 1960-1964 -- Goodbye, boola boola: Yale administration, 1964-1970 -- When do we want it? now! the Bobby Seale Trial, New Haven, 1970 -- Question all authority: the breakdown of meaning and language, Yale, 1970-1973 -- Long walk after lunch: Princeton and the later 1970s -- New technology calls all in doubt: television, books, libraries, computers -- No obligation to be right, only to be interesting: teaching as power and politics, Princeton, the 1980s -- Break between generations, retirement -- Epilogue: the dogs bark, the caravan passes on.
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