Volume 66, Number 4, Fall 1997

A special issue featuring responses to the late Bill Readings' book The University in Ruins, an analysis of the modern "transnational" university, from a broad range of Canadian academic writers.

Articles

Introduction
Brian Corman

Dwelling in the Ruins
Bill Readings

The University' Is Theory: Universities Are Facts
Desmond Morton

Castles on the Cortex; or, Medieval Scholasticism Revisited
Heather MacIvor

Comments
Terence Grier

Readings: Purpose and Effect
Ernest Sirluck

Dissolution, Dissensus, and the Possiblity of Community
Asha Varadharajan

Comments
Michiel Horn

Medieval Maintenance, the Great Interrogations, and the Ruins of the University
Ian Winchester

La Cosa Nostra: Universities and Humanities
T.H.Aadamowski

Comments
Rose Sheinin

Redesigning the Ruins
Shirley Neuman

Runes of Marx and The University in Ruins
L.M. Findlay

Angst amid the Ruins
Clifford Orwin

 


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