English Question: Or Academic Freedoms

by Thomas Docherty

Book Overview

To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845191331
• ISBN13: 9781845191337
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"