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  | | What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Books Ltd International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-482-0, ISBN: 1-84614-482-5 "Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and skepticism about their value. "What Are Universities For?" offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities, and why we need them. Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to show that they help to make money in ..." |
 | | English Pasts(1st Edition) Essays in History and Culture by Stefan Collini Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820780-1, ISBN: 0-19-820780-8 "In this collection of engaging and readable essays, Stefan Collini shows how much can be gained from bringing a rigorous historical perspective to some of the most contentious issues in contemporary culture. Whether he is asking what it means to inhabit and possess a `national past', or reflecting on the role of the historian as social critic, whether he is scrutinizing the claims of Cultural Studies or challenging the assumptions about ..." |
 | | That's Offensive! Criticism, Identity, Respect (Manifestos for the 21st Century) by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 69 Pages, Published 2011 by Seagull Books ISBN-13: 978-1-906497-79-8, ISBN: 1-906497-79-6 ""That s Offensive! "examines the common assertion that to criticize someone else s deeply held ideas or beliefs is inherently offensive. This idea, Stefan Collini argues, is unfortunately reinforced by two of the central requirements of an enlightened global politics: treating all people with equal respect and trying to avoid words or deeds that compound existing social disadvantages. In this powerfully argued book, Collini identifies a ..." |
 | | Absent Minds(1st Edition) Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 536 Pages, Published 2006 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929105-2, ISBN: 0-19-929105-5 "A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain - have such figures ever existed, have they always been more prominent or influential elsewhere, and are they on the point of becoming extinct today? Recovering neglected or misunderstood traditions of reflection and debate from ..." |
 | | The Two Cultures?(Updated) The Significance Of C. P. Snow (Canto Classics) by F. R. Leavis, Stefan Collini Paperback, 122 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-61735-3, ISBN: 1-107-61735-9 "Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-12 Pages: 121 Language: English Publisher: Cambridge University Press In this first annotated edition of FR Leaviss famous critique of CP Snows influential argument about the two cultures. Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake in the dispute and to appreciate the enduring r ..." |
 | | Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-139-8, ISBN: 1-78663-139-3 "A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have sy ..." |
 | | Liberalism and Sociology(Updated) L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914 (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Stefan Collini Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 1983 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-27408-1, ISBN: 0-521-27408-7 "In this wide-ranging book, Stefan Collini deals with the relationship between Liberalism and sociology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. He discusses in particular the crucial contributions of L. T. Hobhouse, the leading Liberal political theorist of the period who is also generally regarded as the 'Founding Father' of British sociology. Based upon extensive original research, the book draws together themes from t ..." |
 | | Arnold 'Culture and Anarchy' and Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Matthew Arnold, Stefan Collini Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 1993 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37796-6, ISBN: 0-521-37796-X "Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establi ..." |
 | | Matthew Arnold(1st Edition) A Critical Portrait: A Critical Portrait by Stefan Collini Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954188-1, ISBN: 0-19-954188-4 "Matthew Arnold (1822-88), the leading man-of-letters of the Victorian age, has been the decisive influence on modern thinking about literature and criticism and his work has become an inescapable cultural reference point today. In this stylish and entertaining book Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual co ..." |
 | | Absent Minds(1st Edition) Intellectuals in Britain by Stefan Collini Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921665-9, ISBN: 0-19-921665-7 "A richly textured work of history and a powerful contribution to contemporary cultural debate, Absent Minds provides the first full-length account of 'the question of intellectuals' in twentieth-century Britain - have such figures ever existed, have they always been more prominent or influential elsewhere, and are they on the point of becoming extinct today? Recovering neglected or misunderstood traditions of reflection and debate from ..." |
 | | Speaking of Universities(Reprint) by Stefan Collini Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-165-7, ISBN: 1-78663-165-2 "A devastating analysis of what is happening to our academia In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new ways of learning and teaching. Globalization forces institutions to consider a new economic horizon. At the same time governments have sy ..." |
 | | Common Reading(1st Edition) Critics, Historians, Publics by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929678-1, ISBN: 0-19-929678-2 "In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership. Among the critics discussed are Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchet ..." |
 | | The Nostalgic Imagination History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-880017-0, ISBN: 0-19-880017-7 "This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians ..." |
 | | The Two Cultures(Reprint) (Canto Classics) by Charles P. Snow, Stefan Collini, Cp Snow Paperback, 179 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-60614-2, ISBN: 1-107-60614-4 "The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures – the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other – has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversary printing of The Two Cultures and its successor piece, A S ..." |
 | | The Nostalgic Imagination History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-886033-4, ISBN: 0-19-886033-1 "This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page' was in practice bound up with claims about the nature and direction of historical change, the interpretation of the national past, and the scholarship of earlier historians ..." |
 | | Common Writing(1st Edition) Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875896-9, ISBN: 0-19-875896-0 "In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach such ..." |
 | | Common Writing(Reprint) Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-881311-8, ISBN: 0-19-881311-2 "In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics, historians, and journalists who occupied wider public roles as cultural commentators or intellectuals, as well as on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach such a ..." |
 | | The Two Cultures(1st Edition) And a second Look by Charles Percy Snow, Stefan Collini, Cp Snow Hardcover, 107 Pages, Published 1965 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45730-9, ISBN: 0-521-45730-0 "The hugely fashionable enterprise of 'literary theory' has similarly reached out to subsume science under its characteristically corrosive categories: science, too, it is argued, is a discourse, involving the same kinds of rhetorical strategies, literary tropes, and unstable meanings as other forms of writing.37 The cumulative tendency of these various approaches has been summed up by the German social theorist, Wolf Lepenies: 'Sci ..." |
 | | Common Reading(1st Edition) Critics, Historians, Publics by Stefan Collini Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-956979-3, ISBN: 0-19-956979-7 "In this series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Collini focuses on critics and historians who wrote for a non-specialist readership, and on the periodicals and other genres through which they attempted to reach that readership. Among the critics discussed are Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchet ..." |
 | | Public Moralists(Updated) Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930 (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Stefan Collini Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1993 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820422-0, ISBN: 0-19-820422-1 "This imaginative and unusual book explores the moral sensibilities and cultural assumptions that were at the heart of political debate in Victorian and early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on the role of intellectuals as public moralists and suggests ways in which their more formal political theory rested upon habits of response and evaluation that were deeply embedded in wider social attitudes and aesthetic judgments. Collini ..." |
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