The idea of the American university /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
Description:	xii, 162 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Universities and colleges -- United States. Education, Higher -- United States. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Education, Higher. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Universities and colleges. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8293130

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Other authors / contributors:	Watson, Bradley C. S., 1961-
ISBN:	9780739149157 (cloth : alk. paper) 0739149156 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780739149171 (electronic) 0739149172 (electronic)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The American University in Crisis
Part I. The Life and Times of the American University
Chapter 1. Universitas sine Universo: On the Home of Truth When There Is No Truth
Chapter 2. The End of the American Core Curriculum
Chapter 3. From Civilizational Memory and the Upward Lifting of Souls, to Upward Mobility, to Upending Social Mores: The Going Down of University Education in One Professor's Lifetime
Chapter 4. Roller of Big Cigars: The American University as Cheerful Mortician
Chapter 5. Eccentric Education - The American Way
Part II. Higher Education and Democracy
Chapter 6. Socrates in America
Chapter 7. Human Dignity and Higher Education Today
Chapter 8. Now That the University Has Become the High School, Where Do We Get an Education?
Part III. The University and the Liberal Arts
Chapter 9. St. Augustine, the University, and the So-Called Liberal Arts
Chapter 10. Toward an American Liberal Education
Index
About the Editor and Contributors

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