Three ideas of the university

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buir.contributor.authorAlexander, James
dc.citation.epage510en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber5en_US
dc.citation.spage492en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber24en_US
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Jamesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-13T13:40:04Z
dc.date.available2020-02-13T13:40:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractWhat is a university? In the nineteenth century John Henry Newman famously spoke of “the idea of a university.” This phrase has dominated all discussions of the nature of the university since. Most contemporary writers are against any attempt to theorise the university in terms of a single idea. But against the now standard view that universities should only be characterised empirically as institutions that perform many different activities, I attempt to defend the idea of the university, not by reviving a single idea of the university but by suggesting that there are, at root, three ideas of the university. These are rival ideas, and strictly incommensurable, though they often exist together in a state of tension in actual universities. I call them the eternal, the immortal, and the immediate ideas of the university.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10848770.2019.1581503en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1470-1316
dc.identifier.issn1084-8770
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/53345
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2019.1581503en_US
dc.source.titleThe European Legacyen_US
dc.subjectUniversitiesen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectIdeaen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.titleThree ideas of the universityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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