Preface - Michael A. Peters/Ronald Barnett: Introduction: The Very Idea of the University - Part One: The German (Bildung) Tradition - Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): The Conflict of the Philosophy Faculty with the Theology Faculty. From The Conflict of the Faculties (1789/1992) - Schleiermacher, Friedrich D. E. (1768-1834): A Closer Look at the University in General Terms. From Occasional Thoughts on Universities in the German Sense, with an Appendix Regarding a University Soon to Be Established (1808/1991) - Schelling, F. W. J. (1775-1854): The Scientific and Moral Functions of Universities. From On University Studies (1802/1966) - von Humboldt, Wilhelm (1776-1835): On the Spirit and the Organisational Framework of Intellectual Institutions in Berlin (1809/1970) - Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900): Preface, Introduction and Lecture One. From On the Future of Our Educational Institutions (1872/2009) - Jaspers, Karl (1883-1969): Research, Education and Instruction. From The Idea of the University (1923/1960) - Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976): The Self-Assertion of the German University: Address Delivered on the Solemn Assumption of the Rectorate of the University Freiburg 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts (1933/1985) - Habermas, Jürgen (1929-): The Idea of the University: Learning Processes (1987) - Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-2002): The Idea of the University, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. From Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics (1992) - Part Two: The English and Scottish (Liberal) Tradition - Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873): A Discourse on the Studies of the University. A Discourse (1833), Psalm CXVI. 17, 18, 19. From A Discourse on the Studies of the University (1833) - Whewell, William (1794-1866): Preparatory Remarks and of the Subjects of University Teaching. From On the Principles of English University Education (1837) - Newman, John Henry (1801-1890): Knowledge Its Own End. From The Idea of the University (1852) - Stuart Mill, John (1806-1873): Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrews, February 1st, 1867(1867) - Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888): Sweetness and Light. From Culture and Anarchy (1869) - Moberly, Walter (1881-1974): Aim and Basis. From The Crisis in the University (1949) - Leavis, F. R. I. (1895-1978): The Idea of the University. From Education and the University: A Sketch for an 'English School'; English Literature in Our Time and the University (1967) - Leavis, F. R. I. (1895-1978): Literature and the University: The Wrong Question. From English Literature in Our Time and the University (1969) - Oakeshott, Michael (1901-1990): The Idea of the University, 1950. From The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (1989) - Oakeshott, Michael (1901-1990): The Definition of a University, 1967. From The Journal of Educational Thought (1967) - Niblett, William Roy (1906-2005): The Central Problem. From Universities between Two Worlds (1974) - Universities between Two Worlds. From Universities between Two Worlds (1974) - Davie, George Elder (1912-2007): The Vernacular Basis of Scottish Humanism. From The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (1961) - Minogue, Kenneth (1930-2013): The Academic and the Practical Worlds. From The Concept of a University (1973) - Part Three: The American (Pragmatist) Tradition - Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929): The Place of the University in Modern Life. From The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men (1918) - Flexner, J. Abraham (1866-1959): The Idea of a Modern University. From Universities: American, English, German (1930) - Hutchins, Robert Maynard (1899-1977): The Dilemmas of the Higher Learning. From The Higher Learning in America (1940) - Kerr, Clark (1911-2003): The Idea of a Multiversity. From The Uses of the University (1963) - Clark, Burton R. (1921-2009): The Problem of University Transformation. From Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (1998) - Bok, Derek (1930-): The Roots of Commercialization. From Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (2003) - Noble, David F. (1945-2010): Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (1998) - Part Four: Other Contributions to the Discourse - Ortega y Gasset, José (1883-1955): The Fundamental Question. From Mission of the University (1930) - Ortega y Gasset, José (1883-1955): The Principle of Economy in Education. From Mission of the University (1930) - Lyotard, Jean-Francois (1924-1998): Introduction; The Field: Knowledge in Computerized Societies; The Problem: Legitimation; The Method: Language Games. From The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984) - MacIntyre, Alasdair (1929-): The Very Idea of a University: Aristotle, Newman and Us (2010) - Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004): The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils (1983) - Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002): Preface to the English Edition. From Homo Academicus (1984) - Said, Edward W. (1935-2003): On the University. From Edward Said and Critical Decolonization (2007) - Readings, Bill (1960-1994): The Idea of Excellence, From The University of Ruins (1996) - Readings, Bill (1960-1994): Dwelling in the Ruins. From The University of Ruins (1996) - Name Index - Subject Index.