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  • - Essays in History and Culture
    af Stefan Collini
    741,95 kr.

    In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary culture. Whether he is asking what it means to inhabit and possess a national past', or reflecting on the role of the historian as social critic, whether he is scrutinizing the claims of Cultural Studies or challenging the assumptions about academic research whether he is pondering the future of literary biography or reassessing some of the leading minds in modern British culture, Collini writes with a rare blend of sympathy, sharpness, and wit. Explicitly addressed to the non-specialist', these essays attempt to make some of the fruits of detailed scholarly research in various fields available to a wider audience. The book will interest (and delight) readers interested in history, literature, and contemporary cultural debate.

  • af Stefan Collini
    363,95 kr.

    In this unusual and important work, three well-known historians of ideas examine the diverse forms taken in nineteenth-century Britain by the aspiration to develop what was then known as a 'science of politics'. This aspiration encompassed a more extensive and ambitious range of concerns than is implied by the modern term 'political science': in fact, as this book demonstrates, it remained the overarching category under which many nineteenth-century thinkers grouped their attempts to achieve systematic understanding of man's common life. As a result of both the over-concentration on closed abstract systems of thought and the intrusion of concerns which pervade much writing in the history of political theory and of the social sciences, these attempts have since been neglected or misrepresented. By deliberately avoiding such approaches, this book restores the subject to its centrality in the intellectual life and political culture of nineteenth-century Britain.

  • af Onora O'Neill, Rens Bod & Stefan Collini
    98,95 kr.

    Tre nye essays af de internationalt anerkendte humanister Onora O'Neill, Stefan Collini og Rens Bod viser en anden side af humaniora, som dels er uadskillelig fra andre videnskaber, dels viser sig at have været selve forudsætningen for en del af vor tids mest avancerede teknologi. Opfordringen er klar fra bogens danske redaktør, professor Anders Engberg-Pedersen: "We need a better account of what the humanities are."INDHOLD Introduction:The Humanities in the WorldAnders Engberg-Pedersen, Mikkel Bille og Karen Gram-SkjoldagerOn Not 'justifying' the Humanities Stefan ColliniThe Humanities beyond InterpretationOnora O'NeillHow the Humanities have Changed the WorldRens Bod

  • af Onora O'Neill, Rens Bod & Stefan Collini
    197,95 kr.

    Tre nye essays af de internationalt anerkendte humanister Onora O'Neill, Stefan Collini og Rens Bod viser en anden side af humaniora, som dels er uadskillelig fra andre videnskaber, dels viser sig at have været selve forudsætningen for en del af vor tids mest avancerede teknologi. Opfordringen er klar fra bogens danske redaktør, professor Anders Engberg-Pedersen: "We need a better account of what the humanities are."INDHOLD Introduction:The Humanities in the WorldAnders Engberg-Pedersen, Mikkel Bille og Karen Gram-SkjoldagerOn Not 'justifying' the Humanities Stefan ColliniThe Humanities beyond InterpretationOnora O'NeillHow the Humanities have Changed the WorldRens Bod

  • - L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914
    af Stefan Collini
    339,95 kr.

    In this wide-ranging book, Collini explores the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.

  • af Stefan Collini
    167,95 - 250,95 kr.

    A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have systematically imposed new procedures regulating funding, governance, and assessment. Universities are being forced to behave more like business enterprises in a commercial marketplace than centres of learning. In Speaking of Universities, historian and critic Stefan Collini analyses these changes and challenges the assumptions of policy-makers and commentators. He asks: does ';marketization' threaten to destroy what we most value about education; does this new era of ';accountability' distort what it purports to measure; and who does the modern university belong to? Responding to recent policies and their underlying ideology, the book is a call to ';focus on what is actually happening and the cliches behind which it hides; an incitement to think again, think more clearly, and then to press for something better.'

  • af Stefan Collini
    127,95 kr.

    Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to show that they help to make money in order to justify getting more money. Instead, he argues that we must reflect on the different types of institution and the distinctive roles they play. In particular we must recognize that attempting to extend human understanding, which is at the heart of disciplined intellectual enquiry, can never be wholly harnessed to immediate social purposes - particularly in the case of the humanities, which both attract and puzzle many people and are therefore the most difficult subjects to justify.At a time when the future of higher education lies in the balance, What Are Universities For? offers all of us a better, deeper and more enlightened understanding of why universities matter, to everyone.

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