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by: Bl. John Henry Newman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 282
EAN: 9781905574193
ISBN: 1905574193
Label: Saint Benedict Press
Manufacturer: Saint Benedict Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 428
Publication Date: November 01, 2006
Publisher: Saint Benedict Press
Sales Rank: 1111801
Studio: Saint Benedict Press
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No man was ever better qualified to write such a book as The Idea of a University than Cardinal Newman was. And the subject has never been more pressing than it is today. In this classic, Newman poses a number of important questions: What is the purpose of education? What does it mean to be educated? What is the role of a university? And where does Catholicism fit in? The issues Newman examined with incomparable insight continue to be relevant today, one hundred and fifty years after it was first published. This book has been recognized as probably the greatest of its kind, and no one interested in the relationship between religion, learning, culture and politics can afford to neglect it.
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Rating: - A little clarification.
A review currently listed for this book pertains to "this Yale edition" and says it leaves out "about half" of what Newman published. However, Amazon indicates that the publisher is "Gateway Editions." The copy that Amazon shipped to me (which matches the picture of the book) indicates "Regnery Publishing" as the publisher. Moreover, it appears to leave out nothing.
Having verified, from the Table of Contents on line, that all of the parts were present, I purchased this edition in ... Read More
Rating:  - This is NOT Newman's IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY!
Unfortunately, this Yale edition leaves out about half of what Newman himself published in 1873 as the definitive edition of THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY. Published here are only the nine "Dublin Discourses" from Part I on "University Teaching" and but four of the ten chapters of Part II, "University Subjects Discussed in Occasional Lectures and Essays." For the hundred-page displacement of Newman's essays, the editor substitutes five interpretive essays supposedly inquiring ... Read More
Rating:  - In Defense of Knowledge
Newman's work is not only an eloquent, erudite, and careful defense of the virtue of knowledge and the value of a liberal education; it is also a brilliantly reasoned and felt argument for the prevention of hubris on the part of any particular branch of knowledge.
Newman's sound warnings against the overreaching of scientific fields and the triumph of smug materialism and positivism are still urgent, of course. Newman is also careful to point out that the liberal arts and even theology ... Read More
Rating: - A beautiful presentation of of a classic work.
A strong case can be made that Englishman John Henry (Cardinal) Newman reinvented the religious univeristy in the 19th century and that most such universities, regardless of their denomination, functioned quite well until the computer age. Now, with all universities being forced to rethink their own identity and mission, the values which Newman enuntiated for them over 100 years ago will return to guide their reinvention in our own day. Or, they can return, if they are given the chance. Yale University ... Read More
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