The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the PresentThis book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over the centuries, Bender provides a novel perspective on the history of both universities and cities. The theme is pursued in studies of Bologna, Paris, Florence, Leiden, Geneva, Edinburgh, London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Chicago, and New York by several distinguished scholars, including Gene Brucker, Carl Schorske, Edward Shils, Martin Jay, and Nathan Glazer. |
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Índice
Introduction | 3 |
Universities and Cities in Medieval Italy | 13 |
The City Its Schools and the Origins | 22 |
Who Needs a University? | 47 |
Civic Humanism and Scientific Scholarship at Leiden | 59 |
Edinburgh Edinburgh University | 100 |
A Metropolitan University? | 119 |
The Collegiate Students | 150 |
Ideals and Realities at | 181 |
Science as Vocation in Burckhardts Basel | 198 |
The Institute of Social Research | 231 |
Two NYUs and The Obligation of Universities to | 249 |
City and University | 267 |
Afterword | 290 |
Contributors | 299 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present |
| Editor | Thomas Bender |
| Colaborador | New York University. Graduate School of Arts and Science |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 1988 |
| ISBN | 0195067754, 9780195067750 |
| N.º de páginas | 316 páginas |
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