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Title: The Idea of a University by John Henry Cardinal Newman, Fred Williams ISBN: 0-7861-0933-5 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 14 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This is NOT Newman's IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY!
Comment: Unfortunately, this Yale edition leaves out about half of what Newman himself published in 1873 as the definitive edition of THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY. Published here are only the nine "Dublin Discourses" from Part I on "University Teaching" and but four of the ten chapters of Part II, "University Subjects Discussed in Occasional Lectures and Essays." For the hundred-page displacement of Newman's essays, the editor substitutes five interpretive essays supposedly inquiring into the relevance of Newman's book for today's higher education debates. These interpretive essays have major inconsistencies and repetitions among themselves and are of mixed quality, with inaccuracies and serious misunderstandings of some of Newman's central ideas. As accurate forays of the Newmanian mind into the twentieth- and twenty-first century university, only the engaging and intellectually challenging essays by George Marsden and George Landow succeed. (COMPLETE paperback editions of Newman's IDEA are available from Loyola University Press, 1987, and University of Notre Dame Press, 1982).
Rating: 2
Summary: Too many typos in this edition
Comment: A wonderful work, too bad that this edition by Regnery is chock full of glaring typographical errors. Detracts from Newman's otherwise brilliant prose.
Rating: 5
Summary: In Defense of Knowledge
Comment: Newman's work is not only an eloquent, erudite, and careful defense of the virtue of knowledge and the value of a liberal education; it is also a brilliantly reasoned and felt argument for the prevention of hubris on the part of any particular branch of knowledge.
Newman's sound warnings against the overreaching of scientific fields and the triumph of smug materialism and positivism are still urgent, of course. Newman is also careful to point out that the liberal arts and even theology may attempt to establish a single, inadequate framework for the discovery of truth.
Newman's complex epistemology does not fall prey to the heresy that truth is not one, but reminds us that in our present state, truth present various aspects and that the tyranny of any particular branch of knowledge is the victory of ignorance.
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Title: The Idea of the University: A Reexamination by Jaroslav Pelikan ISBN: 0300058349 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Penguin Classics) by John Henry Newman, Ian Ker ISBN: 0140433740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The University: An Owner's Manual by Henry Rosovsky ISBN: 0393307832 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The University in Ruins by Bill Readings ISBN: 0674929535 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.35 |
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Title: Mission of the University (Foundations of Higher Education) by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Howard Lee Nostrand, Clark Kerr, Jose Ortega Y. Gasset, Jose Ortega Y. Gasset ISBN: 1560005602 Publisher: Transaction Pub Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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