Rethinking the Future of the University (Mentor Series) - Softcover

9780776604817: Rethinking the Future of the University (Mentor Series)

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ISBN 10: 0776604813 ISBN 13: 9780776604817

Verlag: University of Ottawa Press, 1998

This distinguished collection of essays, edited under the direction of David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello, emerged from the discussions that surrounded the 1995-1996 McMartin Lectures. Dedicated to studying the relationship and contributions of historic Christian thought to the intellectual life of university disciplines, this series of lectures served as an occasion for scholars to rethink the present crisis in the relationship between the historic identity of the university and the development of the modern university.

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,.".Several papers by Christian scholars gathered from a lecture series at the University of Ottawa are firts-rate contributions toward "Rethinking the Future of the University," Practitioners of what George-Marseden has dubbed the outrageous idea of Christian scholarship are in the process of gaining their marginalized status requires hard thinking about first things. As enough of them gather to produce enough valuable work, they qualify as a movement, and the Big Academy is taking some notice. The volume at hand merits greater attention than its out-of-the-way venue may generate. The countercultural force of these essays comes through from even brief sampling. In the first of the collection's three parts, "Where Did We Come From?," George Marsden counteracts the academy's amnesia about even its relatively recent history by recalling John Henry Cardinal Newman's idea of a university in which theology provided the context for other disciplines - a unifying meta-disciplinary function that later passed to philosophy and then passed out. In part 2, "Where Are We Now?," Jean Bethke Elshtain goes head-on against the phony tolerance of the politicized academy and points out the the contempt for norms and the "massive abdication of authority" by parents and educators put at risk our cultural heritage by not transmitting it to our children. (Yes, and the dereliction of just one generation can snap the tie that binds the generations together in a civilized order.) Also in part 2, David Jeffrey asks if humane literacy can survive without a grand narrative; his short answer is "probably not" (wich means "no"). In part 3, "Where Are We Going?," Paul Vitz treats postmodernism as ""really a form oflate modernism, or what I call 'morbid' modernism,"" and hopes for something better ahead, which he lays out under the term "transmodern."" - Edward E. Ericson, Jr. "The University Under the microscope," in Books&Culture, May/June 2005

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Verlag: University of Ottawa Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 0776604813
ISBN 13: 9780776604817
Einband: Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten: 180
Herausgeber: Jeffrey David Lyle, Manganiello Dominic
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