To civilise the city?

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Gaita, Raimond. (2012). To civilise the city? Meanjin. 71(1), pp. 64-82. https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.594586355054172
AuthorsGaita, Raimond
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In the early 1980s Don Gunner, a philosopher at the University of Melbourne, told me that the task of the university is to civilise the city. At the time he said this, many academics still believed that the concept of a university entitled them to say that no institution could rightly call itself a university if it did not have a department of philosophy, or classics, or physics. They thought this to be a conceptual truth - one evident after thoughtful, historically educated reflection on the concept of a university.

Keywordsuniversities and colleges; humanistic education; intellectual life
Year2012
JournalMeanjin
Journal citation71 (1), pp. 64-82
PublisherMeanjin
ISSN0025-6293
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.594586355054172
Scopus EID2-s2.0-84858409964
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Page range64-82
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