The Idea of A University (Notre Dame Series in the Great Books) (Notre Dame Series in Great Books)

ISBN: 0268011508

Author: Newman, John Henry Cardinal

Condition: New

"The Idea of a University [is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all [Newmans] books and certainly the one most intellectually accessible to readers of every religious faith and of none. . . . [O]nly one who has read The Idea of a University in its entirety, especially the nine discourses, can hope to understand why its reputation is so high: why the first reading of this book has been called an epoch in the life of a college man; why Walter Pater thought it the perfect handling of a theory; why the historian G. M. Young has ranked it with Aristotles Ethics among the most valuable of all works on the aim of Education; or why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch told his students at Cambridge that of all the books written in these hundred years there is perhaps none you can more profitably thumb and ponder. -from the introduction by Martin J. Svaglic