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Stefan Collini

Autor(a) de What Are Universities For?

20+ Works 423 Membros 2 Reviews

About the Author

Stefan Collini has been acclaimed as one of the most brilliant essayists of our time, and this collection shows his at his subtle, perceptive, and trenchant best.

Obras de Stefan Collini

What Are Universities For? (2012) 91 cópias
Speaking of Universities (2017) 53 cópias
Arnold (Past Masters) (1988) 18 cópias

Associated Works

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) — Introdução, algumas edições260 cópias
Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings (1993) — Editor — 197 cópias
Essays on equality, law, and education (1984) — Introdução — 5 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Collini, Stefan
Nome de batismo
Collini, Stefan Anthony
Data de nascimento
1947-09-06
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Educação
Jesus College, Cambridge University (Ph.D)
Yale University (MA)
Ocupação
Professor
Literary Critic
Organizações
University of Cambridge
University of Sussex
Premiações
Fellow, British Academy (2000)
Pequena biografia
Stefan Collini has published extensively on the literary and intellectual history of Britain since 1850. Themes that have been central to his recent work include: cultural criticism; intellectuals; literary critics and public debate. He has also written about the history and purpose of universities and has been a prominent critic of recent UK higher education policy. In addition he is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation (NY), and The Guardian.

Membros

Resenhas

I'm sure I picked this book up because something lead me to think it would deal with scientists as moralists, but that didn't really turn out to be true. It did, however, provide some insight into the political thought and actions of John Stuart Mill. Collini does discuss the way science was used by Mill: Alexander Bain called Mill's commitment to equality his greatest error as a scientific thinker, but Mill turned his opponents' belief in inequality into a symptom of bad science. Collini suggests that though we now remember Mill for his Utilitarian justifications, it was his actual, unequivocal morality that made him who he is: Mill's tone suggests dispassionate social fact, but he was actually tendentious and disputable. The insight that I particularly liked (and wished more politicians seemingly followed) was that Mill might compromise his measures, but never his opinions.… (mais)
 
Marcado
Stevil2001 | May 9, 2014 |
Yes, these essays are sometimes difficult and sometimes the subject matter may be unfamiliar, so all the more reason to take up the challenge and learn something new from a real authority.

http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/reading_public_critical/
 
Marcado
angusk | Jul 16, 2008 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
20
Also by
5
Membros
423
Popularidade
#57,688
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
2
ISBNs
43

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