Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977)
Autor(a) de Britannica Great Books of the Western World (54 Volumes)
About the Author
Robert Hutchins wrote widely about education and is best known for his support of liberal education, which he believed "prepares the young for anything that may happen; it has value under any circumstances. . . . It gets them ready for a lifetime of learning. It connects man with man. It introduces mostrar mais all men to the dialogue about the common good of their own country and of the world community. It frees their mind of prejudice. It lays the basis of practical wisdom." He believed that the increasing complexities of civilization did not justify any modification in this approach. "The more technological the society," he says in The Learning Society (1968), "the less ad hoc education can be. The reason is that the more technological the society is, the more rapidly it will change and the less valuable ad hoc education will become. It now seems safe to say that the best practical education is the best theoretical one." After serving as dean of Yale Law School in 1929, Hutchins became (at age 29) president and in 1949 chancellor of the University of Chicago, remaining there until 1951. During this period, he and Mortimer Adler introduced the Great Books program into the Chicago curriculum. They believed that the best education is achieved through reading and understanding the great minds of the past. Later he became associate director of the Ford Foundation and president of the Fund for the Republic. In the latter post, Hutchins faced the oppressive climate for free expression brought about by McCarthyism, but he saw to it that the fund's projects included studies of the federal loyalty-security program, of political blacklisting in the entertainment industries, and of the nature of communism in the United States. He retired as the chief executive officer of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California, a "community of scholars" under the aegis of the Ford Foundation. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Robert Maynard Hutchins
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: American State Papers, The Federalist, and J. S. Mill (1776) — Editor — 390 exemplares
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Man - World (1952) 340 exemplares
Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago 93 exemplares
Great Books of the Western World 33 exemplares
Freedom, education and the Fund;: Essays and addresses, 1946-1956 (Meridian books) (1956) 13 exemplares
Great Books Of The Western World - 54 Volume Set, Incl. 10 Vols of Great Ideas Program & 10 Volumes Gateway To Great… 7 exemplares
Two faces of federalism; an outline of an argument about pluralism, unity, and law: followed by a discussion (1961) 6 exemplares
Great Books of The Western World 6 exemplares
Zuckerkandl! 4 exemplares
Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume 1 & 2; Great Books Of The Western World #40-#41 4 exemplares
Great books of the Western World, Volumes 47 & 28 4 exemplares
Great Books of the Western World [64-volume set] — Editor — 3 exemplares
Britannica Great Books v.17 3 exemplares
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Optics | Treatise on Light (Great Books of the Western World, #34) 3 exemplares
The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises - Great Books Of The Western World, Volume 33 3 exemplares
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GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - NUMBER 41 - THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE VOL. II BY EDWARD GIBBON 2 exemplares
Herodotus - thurydides (vol.6) 2 exemplares
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Great Books of the Western World 19 Volume I 1 exemplar
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The democratic dilemma 1 exemplar
The Great Ideas I. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago 1 exemplar
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD--54 Volumes 27 volumes 1961-1987 GREAT IDEAS TODAY (Yearbooks) 10 volumes GATEWAY TO… (1952) 1 exemplar
The Printed Word: A Ten-Year Bibliography of the Fund for the Republic and the Center for the Study of Democratic… (1963) 1 exemplar
Great Books of the Western World Volume 3 1 exemplar
The atomic bomb versus civilization 1 exemplar
Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 29 1 exemplar
William James 1 exemplar
GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - NUMBER 11 - APOLLONIUS OF PERGA; NICHOMACHUS OF GERASA 1 exemplar
Picking Apples and Pumpkins 1 exemplar
Hippocrates - Galen (vol.10) 1 exemplar
Great Books of the Western World Vol. 1-54 1 exemplar
The political animal: A conversation 1 exemplar
Tacitus (vol.15) 1 exemplar
Chaucer (vol. 22) 1 exemplar
Francis Bacon (vol. 30) 1 exemplar
Locke - Berkeley - Hume (vol. 35) 1 exemplar
Kant (vol. 42) 1 exemplar
Lavoisier - Fourier - Faraday 1 exemplar
Great books of the Western World [52 vols] 1 exemplar
Natural Law and Modern Society 1 exemplar
Primeros Auxilios para el arte 1 exemplar
Sheakspeare I (vol. 26) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (1952) — Editor — 474 exemplares
Britannica Great Books: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (1952) — Editor, algumas edições — 401 exemplares
Great Books of the Western World Vol 23 Machiavelli, Hobbes (1532) — Editor, algumas edições — 326 exemplares
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Love (1952) — Editor, algumas edições — 300 exemplares
A Free and Responsible Press: A General Report on Mass Communication: Newspapers, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines,… (1947) — Prefácio — 21 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hutchins, Robert Maynard
- Data de nascimento
- 1899-01-17
- Data de falecimento
- 1977-05-17
- Localização do túmulo
- Santa Barbara Cemetary, Summit M 501, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Educação
- Oberlin College
Yale University (BA|1921)
Yale Law School (LL.B | 1925) - Ocupações
- President (University of Chicago)
Associate Director (Ford Foundation)
Founder (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions)
professor
administrator - Relações
- Hutchins, Maude (wife)
- Organizações
- United States Army
Yale Law School
University of Chicago
Ford Foundation - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Croce al Merito di Guerra
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 190
- Also by
- 24
- Membros
- 4,569
- Popularidade
- #5,501
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 20
- ISBN
- 48
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 3