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The Ideal of the University (Hardcover)
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The Ideal of the University (Hardcover)
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The Ideal of the University is a lucid, comprehensive analysis of
the rationale, principles, and presuppositions that make
contemporary universities what they are. The book begins with four
sharp, carefully delineated models of a university. After analyzing
such controversial issues as the role of grading in the university
and the "myth" of value neutrality. Wolff turns to the crucial
question of how the university should be governed. He argues for a
radical reconstruction based on a "social contract" that would
place ultimate authority in the hands of the faculty and students.
The book concludes with a series of "practical proposals for
Utopian reform," including such provocative recommendations as a
variable-length, ungraded undergraduate program and elimination of
the Ph.D. degree. In his introduction to this new edition, Wolff
expands upon his original speculations to argue in substantive
detail for the liberating potential of the liberal arts. Drawing
upon Freud and Marcuse, Wolff proposes that literature, art, and
philosophy embody a promise of gratification that engenders a
negative critique of the social and cultural status quo. The
rationale for the liberal arts university is society's need for a
reservoir of critical thinking that is the motor of social,
economic, and political progress. Elegantly written and
passionately argued; The Ideal of the University is essential
reading for educators and sociologists.
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