{"product_id":"our-changing-world-view-ten-lectures-on-recent-movements-of-thought-in-science-economics-education-literature-and-philosophy-9781776145553","title":"Our Changing World-View: Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe University of the Witwatersrand a mere ten years old when, in 1932, these ten lectures were delivered under the auspices of the University Philosophical Society. They portrayed the ideas of the university’s leading academics of the day, and the programme of lectures reveals a studied effort to introduce an element of bipartisan political representation between English and Afrikaner in South Africa by including Wits’ first principal, Jan Hofmeyr, and politician, D.F. Malan, as discussion chairs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Saul Dubow explains in his new introduction to this re-issue of the lectures, \u003cem\u003eOur Changing World-View\u003c\/em\u003e was an occasion for Wits’ leading faculty members to position the young university as a mature institution with a leadership role in public affairs. Above all, it was a means to project the university as a research as well as a teaching institution, led by a vigorous and ambitious cohort of liberal-minded intellectuals. That all were male and white will be immediately apparent to readers of this reissued volume. Ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history and the perils of the ‘machine age’, this book is a sombre reflection of intellectual history and the academy’s role in promulgating political and social divisions in South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction – Saul Dubow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface – H. R. Raikes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1 Some Recent Scientific Advances in their Bearing on Philosophy – Lieut.-General the Right Honourable J. C. Smuts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2 The Material World—Yesterday and Today – Professor J. P. Dalton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3 Evolution—Design or Accident? – Dr. Robert Broom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4 Man at the Crossroads – Professor John F. V. Phillips\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5 Psychology in Perspective – Mr. I. D. MacCrone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6 Literature in the Machine Age – Professor J. Y. T. Greig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7 The Holistic Attitude in Education – Professor T. J. Haarhoff\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8 Our Changing Economic World – Professor C. S. Richards\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9 Africa in the Re-Making – Professor S. H. Frankel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10 Old Truths and New Discoveries – Professor R. F. Alfred Hoernlé\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wits University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53190410142039,"sku":"9781776145553","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-changing-world-view-ten-lectures-on-recent-movements-of-thought-in-science-economics-education-literature-and-philosophy-9781776145553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}