English Question : Or Academic Freedoms

ISBN-13: 9781845191337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 182 str.

Opis

In this important study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom, author Thomas Docherty argues that the question of freedom lies at the heart of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda, and Jaspers, the author argues the academy s will to freedom is grounded in study of the eloquence that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is, or should be, a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning or meanings of social, political, and ethical freedom."