Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Nightmare That Is the Present. The Miseducation of the American Public. Autobiography: A Revolutionary Act. Part II: The Regressive Moment: The Past in the Present. The Primal Scene: "Mortal Educational Combat." The Significance of the South. Part III: The Progressive Moment: The Future in the Present. The Evaporation of the Ego and the Subjectivity of Cyberculture. "Sex Times Technology Equals the Future." Part IV: The Analytic Moment: Anti-Intellectualism and Complicated Conversation. "Something Sound and Important": Interdisciplinarity, Erudition, Self-Reflexivity, Intellectuality. "Possibly Being So": Curriculum as Complicated Conversation. Part V: The Synthetical Moment: Self-Mobilization and Social Reconstruction. Reconstructing the Private and Public Spheres in Curriculum and Teaching. The Education of the American Public. Appendix:Curriculum Studies Journals, Organizations, and Conferences.