Searching for Utopia Universities and Their Histories

Name: Searching for Utopia Universities and Their Histories
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ISBN: 9780520270657

ISBN-10: 0520270657

ISBN-13: 9780520270657

Edition: 2011

Authors: Hanna Holborn Gray

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InSearching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed inThe Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr's vision of the research-driven "multiveristy" with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr's contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray's insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a realist, and Hutchins, seen as an oppositional idealist, were utopians. She then surveys the liberal…

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List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/7/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 130
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Hanna Holborn Graywas President of the University of Chicago from 1978 to 1993 and is presently the Emeritus Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Professor of History there.



Preface


Introduction



The Uses of the University Revisited



The University Idea and Liberal Learning



Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today


Conclusion


Notes


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