01863nam a22002777a 4500 BJBSDDR 20260304163424.0 ta 250826s2020 ctu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780300251869 (pbk.) 0300251866 (pbk.) eng DLC eng LB 41 S518s 2020 Sexton, John Edward, 1942- 44569 Standing for reason : the university in a dogmatic age / John Sexton ; foreword by Gordon Brown. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2020 xxx, 204 pages ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. John 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. Educación 1866 Educación Filosofía 1233 Brown, Gordon 38407 foreword Yale University Press 47331 lcc BK 124916 124916 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-08-26 0 LB 41 S518s 2020 00000195035 2025-08-26 13:04:00 1 2025-08-26 BK