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Reviewed on July 15, 2002
Although he is now a university professor and literary scholar (Literature Against Theory, Plato to Derrida: A Defense of Poetry), in 1969 Edmundson was a football-obsessed underachiever with a bleak future. That's when he and some rowdy classmates signed up for Frank Lears's high school philosophy course. The rumpled new teacher looked like an easy target for their sophomoric pranks, but he managed to persevere with some unconventional teaching methods that turn...Log In or Sign Up to Read More