Grace, Talent, and Merit

ISBN-13: 9780521350419 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 422 str.

Anthony J. La Vopa

Opis

This book focuses on "poor students," young men in eighteenth-century Germany who owed their studies to charity, who formed a substantial minority within the theology faculties, and who entered careers in the clergy, the academic schools, and the universities. Professor La Vopa shows how a cluster of familiar eighteenth-century ideas about grace, talent, and merit shaped a formative social experience central to the lives of many celebrated intellectuals as well as many of the elite.

Recenzje

"...Grace, Talent, and Merit is an original book which ingeniously weaves together information from a variety of sources ranging from sermons to autobiographies to private correspondence to works of philosophy. This book makes a valuable contribution to the history of education in its broadest sense." Katharine D. Kennedy, History of Education Quarterly

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Poor Students: 1. Realities and stereotypes; 2. Initiations; 3. The patronage chain: structure and ideology; 4. The Hofmeister; Part II. Calling, Vocation, and Service: 5. The calling: August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism; 6. Vocation: the natural self and the ethic of reason; 7. Meritocracy: language and ideology; 8. The egalitarian alternative: theory and practice; Part III. New Departures: 9. Orthodoxies and new idioms; 10. Professional ideologies: the making of a teaching corps; 11. The clerical identity; 12. Radical visions: Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Epilogue; Bibliographical notes; Index.