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

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Authors	Gaita, Raimond
Abstract	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.
Keywords	universities and colleges; humanistic education; intellectual life
Year	2012
Journal	Meanjin
Journal citation	71 (1), pp. 64-82
Publisher	Meanjin
ISSN	0025-6293
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.3316/informit.594586355054172
Scopus EID	2-s2.0-84858409964
Research or scholarly	Research
Page range	64-82
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	01 Mar 2012
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