威廉·H.麦克尼尔(William H.McNeill),美国著名历史学家,芝加哥大学历史系荣休教授。他1938年和1939年分别获得芝加哥大学硕士和博士学位。他的作品有《西方的兴起》、《追求权力》等。
发表于2024-09-09
Hutchins' University 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
原题为《哈钦斯与通识教育的神话》 文/张洪彬 刊《东方早报·上海书评》2013年6月16日 1929年,年仅三十岁的哈钦斯开始执掌芝大,长达二十一年之久。在哈钦斯入主之前,芝大的招牌是高质量的研究生教育,而其本科教育一直停留在比较低下的水平。但在他主政期间,芝大的本...
评分高等教育好像一直都在危机之中,多少年了都在喊改革,但是真正的改革又没有见过多少,这么年过去了,好像只有呼吁的姿态和声音是定格不变的。这种情况不单单是中国这样,整个世界的高等教育都是忧心忡忡的样子,好像高等教育时刻都在衰落之中。大学校园愈发浮躁,大学教育愈加...
评分高等教育好像一直都在危机之中,多少年了都在喊改革,但是真正的改革又没有见过多少,这么年过去了,好像只有呼吁的姿态和声音是定格不变的。这种情况不单单是中国这样,整个世界的高等教育都是忧心忡忡的样子,好像高等教育时刻都在衰落之中。大学校园愈发浮躁,大学教育愈加...
评分原题为《哈钦斯与通识教育的神话》 文/张洪彬 刊《东方早报·上海书评》2013年6月16日 1929年,年仅三十岁的哈钦斯开始执掌芝大,长达二十一年之久。在哈钦斯入主之前,芝大的招牌是高质量的研究生教育,而其本科教育一直停留在比较低下的水平。但在他主政期间,芝大的本...
评分高等教育好像一直都在危机之中,多少年了都在喊改革,但是真正的改革又没有见过多少,这么年过去了,好像只有呼吁的姿态和声音是定格不变的。这种情况不单单是中国这样,整个世界的高等教育都是忧心忡忡的样子,好像高等教育时刻都在衰落之中。大学校园愈发浮躁,大学教育愈加...
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The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times.
Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives.
McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him.
Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the
abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942.
In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago
and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.
Hutchins' University 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书