The Romantic Idea of a University: England and Germany, 1770-1850

ISBN-13: 9780333718889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 162 str.

Michael J. Hofstetter

Opis

By the late eighteenth century, universities in England and Germany had lost their sense of purpose. The romantics then presented them with a new one, a new Idea of a university. In Germany, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and others stressed that universities must teach more effectively; in England, Coleridge and Wordsworth attached to the German Idea a desire to keep the universities part of England's national church.

Recenzje

'...he makes a real contribution to our knowledge of the history of universities...' Brian Hendley, History of Education Quarterly

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Preface The Confessional Idea of a University and its Fall The Genesis of the Romantic Idea of a University in Germany The Romantic Idea of a University in England The New Foundation in Berlin Cambridge and Oxford, 1830-1850 Whither the Romantic Idea of a University Bibliography Index

O autorze

MICHAEL HOFSTETTER is Associate Professor of History at Southwest State University in Minnesota.