The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the

Newman, John Henry;Svaglic, Martin J.

ISBN 10: 0268011508 / ISBN 13: 9780268011505

Editore: University of Notre Dame Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 1982

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Soft cover. Reprint, 2007. Minimal wear, very lightly bumped corners, two small indentations on back cover near top corner, otherwise looks new. Binding is tight, unread. Pages are crisp, bright and unmarked throughout. A very nice copy in Fine condition. Codice articolo 000273

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Titolo: The Idea of a University: Defined and ...

Casa editrice: University of Notre Dame Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Data di pubblicazione: 1982

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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"The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman s] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an epoch in the life of a college man; why Walter Pater thought it the perfect handling of a theory ; why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with Aristotle s Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education; or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder. from the introduction by Martin J. Svaglic

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John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was an Anglican priest, poet and theologian and later a Catholic cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.