English Question
Or Academic Freedoms
To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda and Jaspers, the author argues the academy's will to freedom is grounded in study of the eloquence' that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to ex…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84519-133-7
- EAN: 9781845191337
- Produktnummer: 3519887
- Verlag: Sussex Academic Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 182 S.
- Masse: H24.7 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.1 cm 346 g
- Gewicht: 346
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Thomas Docherty is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Aesthetic Democracy and Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency.
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