In Plato's Cave

Acknowledgments xi introduction Shifting Educational Plates xiii Theater and Reality in Greenwich Village: Columbia, 1946 1(9) The Other End of the Log: Williams College, 1946-1949 10(28) Chatter About Shelley: Oxford, 1949-1951 38(21) See My George Gascoigne: Yale Graduate School, 1951-1954 59(26) Keeping Them Quiet: Yale, 1954-1960 85(21) The Two Cultures, Science and Literature 106(13) Publish or Perish: Tenure at Yale, 1960-1964 119(18) Goodbye, Boola Boola: Yale Administration, 1964-1970 137(21) When Do We Want It? Now! The Bobby Seale Trial, New Haven, 1970 158(21) Question All Authority: The Breakdown of Meaning and Language, Yale, 1970-1973 179(23) A Long Walk After Lunch: Princeton and the Later 1970s 202(28) The New Technology Calls All in Doubt: Television, Books, Libraries, Computers 230(16) No Obligation to Be Right, Only to Be Interesting: Teaching as Power and Politics, Princeton, the 1980s 246(30) The Break Between Generations, Retirement 276(19) epilogue The Dogs Bark, the Caravan Passes On 295(6) index 301