The modern university and its discontents : the fate of Newman's legacies in Britain and America /

This series of interlinked essays takes the form of historical 'voyages' around the Victorian intellectual John Henry Newman, and Newman's classic work The Idea of a University, as well as changes in the structure and culture of universities which occurred in Newman's lifetime. T...

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मुख्य लेखक: Rothblatt, Sheldon
स्वरूप: Licensed eBooks
भाषा:अंग्रेज़ी
प्रकाशित: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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विषय - सूची:
  • 1. The idea of the idea of a university and its antithesis
  • 2. 'Consult the Genius of the Place'
  • 3. 'The first undergraduates, recognizable as such'
  • 4. Failure
  • 5. Historical and comparative remarks on the 'federal principle' in higher education
  • Interlude: General introduction to Chapters six and seven
  • 6. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 1. 'The awkward interval'
  • 7. Supply and demand in the writing of university history since about 1790: 2. The market and the University of London
  • 8. Alternatives: 1. The importance of being unattached
  • 9. Alternatives: 2. Born to have no rest.