The English Question
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 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 â?” and including Hume, Rousseau, Schiller, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Newman, Alain, Benda, and Jaspers â?”...
