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The Idea of a University

The Idea of a University - Paperback

by John Henry Cardinal Newman
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Henry Cardinal Newman, Martin J. SvaglicSeries:Notre Dame Great BooksPublish date:1992-10-31Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268011505ISBN-10:268011508UPC:9780268011505Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:Schools, HistoryBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SC4C4JBC9R
"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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Notre Dame PressISBN-13:9780268011505ISBN-10:268011508UPC:9780268011505Book Category:EducationBook Subcategory:Schools, HistoryBook Topic:LevelsSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SC4C4JBC9R

John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was an Anglican priest, poet and theologian and later a Catholic cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

Martin J. Svaglic (1916-1998) taught English at Loyola University Chicago for almost 45 years until retiring in 1983. Svaglic served as the Frederick Ives Carpenter Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. During his career, Svaglic became a leading authority in nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement.


Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press

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John Henry Cardinal Newman, Martin J. Svaglic

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