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