Generational Conflict and University Reform
Generational Conflict and University Reform

Author: Heather Ellis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9004225528

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This book argues that growing tensions between students and the university authorities were crucial in determining the introduction of key reforms such as competitive examination and a uniform syllabus at Oxford against the background of the American and French Revolutions.

Victorian Empiricism
Victorian Empiricism

Author: Peter Garratt

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0838642667

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Empiricism, one of Raymond William's keywords, circulates in much contemporary thought and criticism solely as a term of censure, a synonym for spurious objectivity or positivism. Yet rarely, if ever, has it had this philosophical implication. Dr Johnson, it should be recalled, kicked the stone precisely to expose empiricism's baroque falsifications of common sense. In an effort to restore historical depth to the term, this book examines epistemology in the narrative prose of five writers, John Ruskin, Alexander Bain, G. H. Lewes, Herbert Spencer, and George Eliot, developing the view that the flourishing of nineteenth-century scientific culture occurred at a time when empiricism itself was critically dismantling any such naive representationalism. --