A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University

by A. Bartlett Giamatti

Overview

“[Giamatti] contributes a fresh voice to the debate over higher education in America, writing not about what we ought to know, but about why it is important to know.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

President of Yale University from 1978 to 1986 and before that professor of English at Yale, A. Bartlett Giamatti was one of the voices that most clearly articulated the role of the university in the modern world. In twenty-four essays here, Mr. Giamatti explores the relationship of the university to government, industry, and the private sector. He defines the essence of liberal education, rooted in freedom, dedicated to learning for its own sake. He exposes menace of ideologues of any stripe who would impose on the university a limiting political, religious, or social agenda. Throughout, Giamatti sets forth his commitment to an education that “will constantly test rather than impose the values it cherishes.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393306712
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/17/1990
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

A. Bartlett Giamatti, at the time of his death Commissioner of Baseball, was a former professor of English and president of Yale University.