Docherty, Thomas (2008) The English question, or academic freedoms. Critical inventions . Sussex Academic Press, Brighton. ISBN 9781845191320

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Abstract

To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important new study, a study that begins with the claim that the fundamental idea governing the institution of the University is a will to freedom. Tracing a history of the modern European University from Vico onwards and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda and Jaspers, the author argues the academy's will to freedom is grounded in study of the 'eloquence' that has shaped literate and humane values. He goes on to explore the current condition of English as a literary discipline, arguing that literary studies is (or should be) a search for the unknown; and that in only that search can the academy establish the real meaning - or meanings - of social, political and ethical freedom.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Series Name:	Critical inventions
Publisher:	Sussex Academic Press
Place of Publication:	Brighton
ISBN:	9781845191320
Date:	2008
Number of Pages:	181
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/42451

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