The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect: The Problem of Generalism and Specialism in 10th Century Scotland

Davie, George Elder

ISBN 10: 0389207136 / ISBN 13: 9780389207139

Published by Barnes & Noble Imports, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crisis of the Democratic Intellect: The Problem of Generalism and Specialism in 10th Century Scotland
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble Imports
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0389207136
• ISBN 13: 9780389207139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

A sequel to The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteent Century, this book considers the paradoxical fact that at the end of World War I, the long continued and deliberate movement away from a university education of a generalist type, peculiar to Scotland, and towards a more specialising system, similar to that in other countries, was suddenly put into reverse. Instead of doing away with the inherited order, so as to put the practical on a level with the theoretical, why did the Scots go out of their way to re-establish the primacy of the intellect?