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The English question : or academic freedoms / Thomas Docherty.

By: Docherty, Thomas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Critical inventions.Publisher: Brighton [England] ; Portland, Oregon : Sussex Academic Press, 2008Description: xiv, 182 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781845191337; 1845191331; 9781845191320.Subject(s): English literature -- History and criticism | Academic freedom | Universities and colleges -- Europe -- History | English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) | Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives | Education | Literary theory | Education | Teaching of a specific subject | Social & cultural history | c 2000 to c 2009 | English | Europe | Great Britain -- CivilizationDDC classification: 378.1 DOC Summary: To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So arguing, this study begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom.
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To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda and Jaspers, the author argues the academy's will to freedom is grounded in study of the 'eloquence' that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is (or should be) a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning -- or meanings -- of social, political and ethical freedom.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So arguing, this study begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • The English Question
  • The Fate of Culture: Die Welt ist Alles
  • On Reading
  • The Question Concerning Literature
  • For a Literature that is Without and Beyond Compare
  • Newman: The University and Universalism
  • The Existence of' Scotland
  • On Critical Humility
  • Clandestine English
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Thomas Docherty is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Warwick. He is the author of several books, including Aesthetic Democracy and Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency .