Abstract
In Culture against Itself, C. A. Bowers speaks through the strong voices of numerous contemporary thinkers. Bell, Gouldner, Strong, Rosen, Goudsblom, and Carroll speak boldly of the connections among individualism, rationalism, nihilism, and culture. From the perspective of their thoughtful analyses, Bowers tentatively suggests a connection between the program of emancipation education theorists and nihilism, between consciousness-raising pedagogy and the destruction of tradition. He accepts both the emancipation theorists' view that education ought to be consciousness-raising and the previous theorists' view that our cultural values of individualism and rationality contain within them the seeds of nihilism. He then calls on Maxine Greene to resolve the
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