- Bib ID:
- 10007294
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bennett, M. R. (Maxwell Richard), author
- Description:
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- Sydney, N.S.W. : The University of Sydney, 2022
- ©2022
- xxi, 333 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781742105208 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Universities have searched for truth over nearly a millennium. Maxwell Bennett recounts history of the search during three of its most momentous periods in the 13th, 18th and 20th centuries, which helped fashion the idea of a university." --Back cover.
- Full contents:
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- Part A. Divine truth and the University of Paris
- Peter Abelard and the 12th-century French intellectual renaissance
- Thomas Aquinas and the 13th-century reconciliation of theology and philosophy
- Scholasticism and the University of Paris
- Part B. Empirical truth and the University of Berlin
- Immanuel Kant and the shift from humanism to empiricism
- Wilhelm von Humboldt on languages and the philosophy of higher education
- Disciplines and the University of Berlin
- Part C. Scientific truth and the University of California
- Robert Oppenheimer and discoveries in physics
- Ernest Lawrence and the beginnings of 'big science'
- The 'multiversity' of the University of California
- Part D. The university and contemporary challenges
- Universities and existential risk
- Preserving the idea of a university.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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