Wisdom and Delight in the University

Higton, Mike

doi:10.1080/13617672.2013.828953

Wisdom and Delight in the University

Higton, Mike

Authors

Professor Mike Higton mike.higton@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

Recent debate about the public benefit of university scholarship, especially in the humanities, has sometimes been caught in a sterile tension between the promotion of engagement and the preservation of detachment, or between learning for public benefit and learning for learning’s sake. The article traces this tension back to the work of John Henry Newman. By examining recent work on Higher Education by various Christian theologians (Nigel Biggar, Stanley Hauerwas, Rowan Williams and David Ford), this article suggests that we should instead think of humanities scholarship as intensively dedicated to the public good, but as serving that good by pursuing both wisdom and delight.

Citation

Higton, M. (2013). Wisdom and Delight in the University. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 34(3), 300-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2013.828953

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Nov 1, 2013
Deposit Date	May 22, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Jun 6, 2014
Journal	Journal of Beliefs and Values
Print ISSN	1361-7672
Electronic ISSN	1469-9362
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	34
Issue	3
Pages	300-311
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2013.828953
Keywords	Universities, Higher Education, Wisdom, John Henry Newman, David Ford, Rowan Williams, Stanley Hauerwas.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Beliefs and Values on 12/11/2013, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13617672.2013.828953.