Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 122 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520270657
,
0520951700
,
1283369729
,
9780520270657
,
9780520951709
,
9781283369725
Content:
In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr's vision of the research-driven "multiveristy" with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr's contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray's insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a realist, and Hutchins, seen as an oppositional idealist, were utopians
Content:
The uses of the university revisited -- The university idea and liberal learning -- Uses (and misuses) of the university today
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520270657
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gray, Hanna Holborn Searching for Utopia Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012
Language:
English
URL:
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