| Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School' Revised Edition Contributor(s): Leavis, F. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521295734 ISBN-13: 9780521295734 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1979 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 820.711 |
| LCCN: 84672652 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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'. |