Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 225 g
A Sketch for an 'English School'
Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 225 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-29573-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a liberal education. Deeply disturbed by this state of affairs, Leavis puts forward a proposal for a University English School which would offer a programme of liberal studies designed to bring various disciplines into relation without promoting superficiality. This in turn leads him to consider the wider issue of the idea of a university in modern society as a 'focus of the finer life of cultural tradition'. 'Such prepotency,' he writes in the preface, 'as this country may hope for in the English-speaking world of the future must lie in the cultural realm, and … in the performance of this function the universities have an essential part'.
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Preface; 1. The idea of a university; 2. A sketch for an 'English School'; 3. Literary studies; Appendix.
