The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
- List Price: $62.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1996
Description:
What is the purpose of higher education, and how should we pursue it? Debates over these issues raged in the late nineteenth century as reformers introduced a new kind of university. Based on extensive research at eight universities, Reuben examines the aims of university reformers in the context of nineteenth-century ideas about truth.
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