Topics of Our Time: Twentieth-century issues in learning and in artThis collection of hard hitting and highly readable essays reflects Gombrich's preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. He confronts with characteristic incision and erudition some of the most urgent issues that challenge today's students of art and civilization. His topics include a series of radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an assault on the notion of relativism and a heartfelt plea for the