The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present

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Thomas Bender
Oxford University Press, 1988 - 316 páginas
This 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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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
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ThomasBenderUniversity Professor of the HumanitiesNew York University.

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