
The Idea of a University John Henry Newman, Frank M. Turner
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- Series:
- Rethinking the Western Tradition
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication date:
- 29 May 1996
- ISBN:
- 9780300064056
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 400 pages: 210 x 140mm
- Illustrations:
- 2 b-w illus.
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In the essays Martha Garland discusses the character and organization of the early nineteenth-century English universities upon which Newman based much of his vision; Frank M. Turner traces the impact of Newman's influence during the vast expansion of higher education since World War II; George Marsden investigates how the decreasing emphasis on religion has affected higher education; Sara Castro Klaren examines the implications of Newman's views on education and literature for current debates between proponents of a curriculum based on western civilization and one based on multiculturalism; and George Landow considers what the advent of electronic communication will mean to university teaching, research, and community. To aid accessibility, the edition also includes an analytical table of contents, a chronology and biographical sketch of Newman's life, questions for discussion, expanded notes, and a glossary of names, all of which will help make this the standard teaching text for Newman's work.
"The Idea of a University is not, then, just a classic in the history of educational thought; it is as much a theological work as any Newman wrote."?Paul Dean, New Criterion
"This volume, especially the essays by American educators, bears testimony to [Newman's] far-reaching vision."?America
"Impeccably edited, with challenging commentaries and enough scholarly apparatus to satisfy an academic audience without intimidating the lay reader."?Gertrude Himmelfarb, Wall Street Journal
"This volume . . . offers a clear challenge to our complacent assumption that there is a coherence somewhere in the disheveled haystack of modern higher education though we have yet to define even the terms in which we might define it."?Don Gifford, Boston Book Review
"This new edition of The Idea of a University should renew the debates to which Newman and his Idea gave rise a century and a half ago, helping us better to see our universities today."?Michael A. Testa, Canadian Catholic Review
"The new edition is meant to be an accessible and inexpensive collection that can be used for teaching; this intention has been fulfilled."?Sheldon Rothblatt, Lychnos
"For many, the Idea remains the finest of all commentaries on what a university is and what it does for its students."?John R. Griffin, Catholic Historical Review
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