Bøker av Norman Foerster

Foerster has here formulated his ideas concerning the relation of humanism to graduate study and scholarship. In a day when all educational ideals and methods are up for reexamination and appraisal, this book is particularly timely, and no one interested in such questions can afford to be ignorant of this carefully considered statement by one of the leading thinkers of his day.

The authors of this study deplore the gulf that lies between the creative writer and the scholar. In five stimulating essays on letters, language, literary history, criticism, and imaginative writing, they challenge our prevailing pedantries and offer a program for revitalizing literary scholarship in the universities. Originally published in 1941.

This brief discussion of higher education is based on the argument that the spirit of the humanities should dominate the entire program of a public university. The central position of the humanities cannot be recognized in present-day universities that have a naturalistic and utilitarian orientation. Only when this has been changed will a fundamental improvement in higher education be possible.