Leaving Safe Harbors

To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture Carlson argues progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives Carlson interrogates philosophy through popular culture for mythologies that might guide such a progressivism. Carlson uses Platonic Hegelian Nitzschean and Heideggerian mythologies to elaborate a progressive model that provides powerful ways of thinking democratic education and public life.