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Preface: 'Clarifying the Mysteries of Intellectual Culture', by Gerald Graff, Introduction: The Knowledge Gap 1. An Institutional History of Literacy Education, Part I: A History of Education, Democracy, and Culture War 2. The Authority of Tradition: Schooling, Books, and the Development of Literacy 3. Culture Wars: Literacy, Schooling, and the Development of Democracy 4. Discontent with Democracy: Culture Wars in U. S., Part II: Subjectivity, Culture, and Bounded Rationality 5. Oral Culture and the Development of Literacy 6. The Concept of Culture 7. The Subjective Truth of Fiction 8. Bounded Rationality: The Problems of Subjective Knowledge 9. Culture, Common Sense, and the News Media  10. Is This Story True? Bias in the News Media, Part III: Philosophy, Science and the Development of Objectivity 11. Philosophy and the Development of Knowledge 12. Science and the Development of Objectivity 13. Provisional Truth: The Limitations of Science 14. Practical Reasoning: Solving the Problems of Everyday Life Part IV: The Limitations of Argument: Pluralism, Values, and Contested Communication 15. Culture Is a Debate 16. Understanding Cultural Values 17. Open Arguments and the Warrant, Conclusion: The Virtues of Toleration and Democratic Deliberation, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index