The Ideal of the University

by Robert Paul Wolff

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156000603X
• ISBN13: 9781560006039
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"