What's a university for?
Posted by tom | Nov 20, 2007
Placing The State of the University by Stanley Hauerwas on my Christmas list, if you'd like to bless me with copy, let me know (note: other request below). Here's a quote from the Books & Culture Review, Hauerwas at School: What's a university for?
Today, Hauerwas writes,
the state and the university reflect the symbiotic relationship that once pertained between the university and the church. In the Middle Ages the university was used to produce clerks for church and state. Now the university is expected to produce people educated to serve the bureaucracies of modernity in which it is assumed the state is crucial for an ordered world. That the university serves this function should not surprise us given the fact that the modern university and the modern state developed together.
Also on the Christmas wish list:
-The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as writers in community
-Reading the Bible with the Damned
-Uncomfortable Bible Passages
