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John Grote struggled to construct an intelligible account of
philosophy at a time when radical change and sectarian conflict
made understanding and clarity a rarity. This book answers three
questions: How did John Grote develop and contribute to modern
Cambridge and British philosophy? What is the significance of these
contributions to modern philosophy in general and British Idealism
and language philosophy in particular? How were his ideas and his
idealism incorporated into the modern philosophical tradition?
College-university relationships, the role of examinations, the
politics of curriculum: papers amplify the picture of developments
in Cambridge during the century. It was in the 19th and early 20th
centuries that Cambridge, characterised in the previous century as
a place of indolence and complacency, underwent the changes which
produced the institutional structures which persist today. Foremost
among them was the rise of mathematics as the dominant subject
within the university, with the introduction of the Classical
Tripos in 1824, and Moral and Natural Sciences Triposes in 1851.
Responding to this, Trinity was notable in preparing its students
for honours examinations, which came to seem rather like athletics
competitions, by working them hard at college examinations. The
admission of women and dissenters in the 1860s and 1870s was a
majorchange ushered in by the Royal Commission of 1850, which
finally brought the colleges out of the middle ages and
strengthened the position of the university, at the same time
laying the foundations of the new system of lectures and
supervisions. Contributors: JUNE BARROW-GREEN, MARY BEARD, JOHN R.
GIBBINS, PAULA GOULD, ELISABETH LEEDHAM-GREEN, DAVID McKITTERICK,
JONATHAN SMITH, GILLIAN SUTHERLAND, CHRISTOPHER STRAY, ANDREW
WARWICK, JOHN WILKES.
What happens to politics in the postmodern condition? The Politics
of Postmodernity is a political tour de force that addresses this
key contemporary question. Politics in postmodernity is carefully
contextualized by relating its specific sphere - the polity - to
those of the economic, social, technological and cultural. The
authors confront globalization and the notion of postmodernity as
disorganized capitalism. They analyze the role of the mass media,
the changing ways in which politics is used, the role of the state
and the progressive potential of politics in postmodern times.
Closing with a postscript on the future of the discipline of
political science, this book offers a profound yet highly
accessible account of how politics is undergoing a shift from the
modern to the postmodern.
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