Abstract

One can appreciate and sympathize with the lament, both for the idea and the fact of the ideal of a University, in place in the nineteenth century and emulated widely through the twentieth century down to our own times. Bill Readings's University in Ruins is a comprehensive requiem for such institutions. He, along with many colleagues known and unknown to him, has watched with concern as the University has undergone transformation after transformation, as it sought to fulfil its bargain with society, forged so long ago. The University would be granted control over all of its affairs, in exchange for services to be rendered to society, as required. Society has changed significantly since this relationship was codified in the sixteenth century when universities were granted the protected status of artisan guilds in the emerging Hanseatic towns of Europe. This connected journey is well described elsewhere in this issue.

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