English Question by Thomas Docherty

English Question by Thomas Docherty

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.

Thomas Docherty is Professor of English and of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick.

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ISBN 13	9781845191337
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Titel	English Question
Autor	Thomas Docherty
Serie	Critical Inventions
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-01-02
Seitenanzahl	182
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