The Concept of a University

by Kenneth Minogue

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808471
• ISBN13: 9780765808479
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"