The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 022641471X ISBN 13: 9780226414713

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2017

Riassunto

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources—many translated into English for the first time—that outline what would become the university as we know it.

The editors focus on the development of American universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Universities of Chicago, California, and Michigan. Looking to Germany, they translate a number of seminal sources that formulate the shape and purpose of the university and place them next to hard-to-find English-language texts that took the German university as their inspiration, one that they creatively adapted, often against stiff resistance. Enriching these texts with short but insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical development of higher learning but also its role in modern society.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literature and director of the Humanities Institute at Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including The Anti-Journalist, published by the University of Chicago Press. Chad Wellmon is associate professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Organizing Enlightenment. Louis Menand is a staff writer at the New Yorker as well as the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Metaphysical Club.
 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022641471X
• ISBN 13: 9780226414713
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 405
• Redattore: Menand Louis, Reitter Paul, Wellmon Chad
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile