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The Concept of a University - With a new introduction by the author (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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The Concept of a University - With a new introduction by the author (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Taking on the challenge of the postmodernists of politics, Kenneth
Minogue argues forcefully and persuasively that the current
dominant philosophies of education rest upon a mistake. The
fashionable belief that the university is society's handmaiden is
confronted by a view of the university as an institution with an
independent vitality and function. Minogue at one and the same time
reminds us of the sources of admiration for university life in the
medieval world, and how it rested squarely on its essential
autonomy from the very social pressures that have come to define
the modern university.
"The Concept of a University" traces many confusions imposed by
political ideology to a failure to distinguish academic inquiry
from other kinds of intellectual activity, such as journalism,
religious proselytizing, and high quality propaganda. Minogue holds
that where the university lacks a clear sense of the difference
between the academic and the pragmatic, its vitality is sapped by
conflicting purposes.
Much of the present debate about the crisis in universities rests
upon a fundamental error of trying to fit them into some scheme of
social functions. Minogue's analysis breaks through much muddled
thinking on this subject, presenting instead a coherent, relevant,
and stimulating approach to higher education.
In a new introduction, Minogue tells us "we have become
frightfully tolerant. Anyone can become anything, and we all belong
to the one practical world of churning problems and solutions.
There is no doubt that a new world is being born. It seems to be a
world that will have little place for the disinterested pursuit of
truth. A great deal of old fashioned scholarship survives--partly
by silence, cunning and exile' --in the universities' of the
present day, but little relationship remains between what we used
to call universities' and the things called by that name today."
Kenneth Minogue is professor emeritus of political science at the
London School of Economics. He was born in New Zealand, educated in
Australia, and has made his life and academic career in the United
Kingdom. He is the author of "The Liberal Mind, Nationalism," and
most recently, "Democracy and the Moral Life." He is a director of
the Centre for Policy Studies and also senior research fellow of
the Bruges Group, where he remains a member of its academic
advisory council.
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