01778nam a22002537a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020002500069020002200094040001300116041000800129050002200137100003400159245010500193260006600298300003000364504005100394520097700445650001601422650003001438700002901468710002701497BJBSDDR20260304163424.0ta250826s2020    ctu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780300251869 (pbk.)  a0300251866 (pbk.)  bengcDLC  aeng14aLB 41bS518s 20201 aSexton, John Edward, d1942- 10aStanding for reason : bthe university in a dogmatic age / cJohn Sexton ; foreword by Gordon Brown.  aNew Haven, Conn. ; aLondon : bYale University Press, c2020  axxx, 204 pages ; b20 cm   aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aJohn Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are “revealed.” Our leaders and our citizens suffer from an allergy to nuance and complexity, and the enterprise of thought is in danger. Sexton sees our universities, the engines of knowledge and stewards of thought, as the antidote, and he describes the policies university leaders must embrace if their institutions are to serve this role. Acknowledging the reality of our increasingly interconnected world—and drawing on his experience as president of New York University when it opened campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai—Sexton advocates for “global network universities” as a core aspect of a new educational landscape and as the crucial foundation-blocks of an interlocking world  characterized by “secular ecumenism. 4aEducación 4aEducaciónxFilosofía 1 aBrown, Gordon eforeword2 aYale University Press