{"product_id":"the-idea-of-the-university-9781433121906","title":"The Idea of the University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of \u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e through to Jaspers, Habermas and Gadamer; Newman, Arnold, Leavis and others in the British tradition; Kerr, Bok and Noble, among others, in the American tradition; and Bourdieu, Lyotard and Derrida in the French tradition. Each reading is prefaced with a brief editor's explanatory note. \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a comprehensive account of the university, and is matched by a second volume of original essays on contemporary perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael A. Peters and Ronald Barnett have done the academic community a great service by collecting, in two handsome and well-structured volumes, a number of the most important contributions in thinking about the university, as well as providing illuminating and instructive directives for understanding the current relevance of the essays. These books should be required reading for anyone who cares about higher education in the present and the future. —\u003ci\u003eSharon Rider, Professor of Philosophy, Uppsala University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis two-volume work will provide a wonderful resource for all who have an interest in the idea of the university. Through their careful selection of both historical and contemporary texts, and their own insightful commentaries, Michael Peters and Ronald Barnett take readers on a fascinating, thought-provoking intellectual journey.  From the canonical musings of Kant, Humboldt and Newman to recent scholarship on neoliberalism, globalization and digital developments in higher education, \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University\u003c\/i\u003e offers much for teachers and students, managers and administrators, and politicians and policy-makers to reflect on as they play their parts in creating the university of the future. —\u003ci\u003ePeter Roberts, Professor of Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface – Michael A. Peters\/Ronald Barnett: Introduction: The Very Idea of the University – Part One: The German (\u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e) Tradition – Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804): The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Theology Faculty. From \u003ci\u003eThe Conflict of the Faculties \u003c\/i\u003e(1789\/1992) – Schleiermacher, Friedrich D. E. (1768–1834): A Closer Look at the University in General Terms. From \u003ci\u003eOccasional Thoughts on Universities in the German Sense, with an Appendix Regarding a University Soon to Be Established \u003c\/i\u003e(1808\/1991) – Schelling, F. W. J. (1775–1854): The Scientific and Moral Functions of Universities. From \u003ci\u003eOn University Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(1802\/1966) – von Humboldt, Wilhelm (1776–1835): On the Spirit and the Organisational Framework of Intellectual Institutions in Berlin (1809\/1970) – Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844–1900): Preface, Introduction and Lecture One. From \u003ci\u003eOn the Future of Our Educational Institutions \u003c\/i\u003e(1872\/2009) – Jaspers, Karl (1883–1969): Research, Education and Instruction. From \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1923\/1960) – Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976): The Self-Assertion of the German University: Address Delivered on the Solemn Assumption of the Rectorate of the University Freiburg 1933\/34: Facts and Thoughts (1933\/1985) – Habermas, Jürgen (1929–): The Idea of the University: Learning Processes (1987) – Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900–2002): The Idea of the University, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. From \u003ci\u003eHans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics \u003c\/i\u003e(1992) – Part Two: The English and Scottish (Liberal) Tradition – Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873): A Discourse on the Studies of the University. A Discourse (1833), Psalm CXVI. 17, 18, 19. From \u003ci\u003eA Discourse on the Studies of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1833) – Whewell, William (1794–1866): Preparatory Remarks and of the Subjects of University Teaching. From \u003ci\u003eOn the Principles of English University Education \u003c\/i\u003e(1837) – Newman, John Henry (1801–1890): Knowledge Its Own End. From \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1852) – Stuart Mill, John (1806–1873): Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrews, February 1st, 1867\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1867) – Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888): Sweetness and Light. From \u003ci\u003eCulture and Anarchy \u003c\/i\u003e(1869) – Moberly, Walter (1881–1974): Aim and Basis. From \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis in the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1949) – Leavis, F. R. I. (1895–1978): The Idea of the University. From \u003ci\u003eEducation and the University: A Sketch for an ‘English School’; English Literature in Our Time and the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1967) – Leavis, F. R. I. (1895–1978): Literature and the University: The Wrong Question\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEnglish Literature in Our Time and the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1969) – Oakeshott, Michael (1901–1990): The Idea of the University, 1950. From \u003ci\u003eThe Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education \u003c\/i\u003e(1989) – Oakeshott, Michael (1901–1990): The Definition of a University, 1967. From \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Educational Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(1967) – Niblett, William Roy (1906–2005): The Central Problem. From \u003ci\u003eUniversities between Two Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) – Universities between Two Worlds. From \u003ci\u003eUniversities between Two Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(1974) – Davie, George Elder (1912–2007): The Vernacular Basis of Scottish Humanism. From \u003ci\u003eThe Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century \u003c\/i\u003e(1961) – Minogue, Kenneth (1930–2013): The Academic and the Practical Worlds. From \u003ci\u003eThe Concept of a University \u003c\/i\u003e(1973) – Part Three: The American (Pragmatist) Tradition – Veblen, Thorstein (1857–1929): The Place of the University in Modern Life. From \u003ci\u003eThe Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men \u003c\/i\u003e(1918) – Flexner, J. Abraham (1866–1959): The Idea of a Modern University. From \u003ci\u003eUniversities: American, English, German \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) – Hutchins, Robert Maynard (1899–1977): The Dilemmas of the Higher Learning. From \u003ci\u003eThe Higher Learning in America \u003c\/i\u003e(1940) – Kerr, Clark (1911–2003): The Idea of a Multiversity. From \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1963) – Clark, Burton R. (1921–2009): The Problem of University Transformation. From \u003ci\u003eCreating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation \u003c\/i\u003e(1998) – Bok, Derek (1930–): The Roots of Commercialization. From \u003ci\u003eUniversities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education \u003c\/i\u003e(2003) – Noble, David F. (1945–2010): Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) – Part Four: Other Contributions to the Discourse – Ortega y Gasset, José (1883–1955): The Fundamental Question. From \u003ci\u003eMission of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) – Ortega y Gasset, José (1883–1955): The Principle of Economy in Education. From \u003ci\u003eMission of the University \u003c\/i\u003e(1930) – Lyotard, Jean-Francois (1924–1998): Introduction; The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies; The Problem: Legitimation; The Method: Language Games. From \u003ci\u003eThe Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge \u003c\/i\u003e(1984) – MacIntyre, Alasdair (1929–): The Very Idea of a University: Aristotle, Newman and Us (2010) – Derrida, Jacques (1930–2004): The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils (1983) – Bourdieu, Pierre (1930–2002): Preface to the English Edition. From \u003ci\u003eHomo Academicus \u003c\/i\u003e(1984) – Said, Edward W. (1935–2003): On the University. From \u003ci\u003eEdward Said and Critical Decolonization \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) – Readings, Bill (1960–1994): The Idea of Excellence, From \u003ci\u003eThe University of Ruins \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) – Readings, Bill (1960–1994): Dwelling in the Ruins. 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