The idea of a university : defined and illustrated in nine discourses delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in occasional lectures and essays addresses to the members of the Catholic University / by John Henry Cardinal Newman ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin J. Svaglic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890.

Contributor:

Svaglic, Martin J.

Series:

Notre Dame series in the great books

Notre Dame series in the great books.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890.

Newman, John Henry.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 428 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1982.

Summary:

" The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newman's] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an 'epoch' in the life of a college man; why Walter Pater thought it 'the perfect handling of a theory'; why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with Aristotle's Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education; or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that 'of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder.'" --from the introduction by Martin J. Svaglic

ISBN:

0268011508

OCLC:

8430288