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Abraham Flexner

    Abraham Flexner was an influential American educator renowned for spearheading critical reforms in medical and higher education across the United States and Canada. His incisive critiques of the existing educational frameworks sparked transformative changes, reshaping academic institutions and pedagogical approaches. Beyond institutional reform, Flexner was instrumental in founding the Institute for Advanced Study, a hub that fostered groundbreaking intellectual discovery and collaboration among leading minds.

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    L'utilità dell'inutile. Manifesto
    Is Social Work a Profession?
    Henry S. Pritchett
    • Is Social Work a Profession?

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Excerpt from Is Social Work a Profession? If there is a dancing profession, a baseball profession, an acting profession, a nursing profession, an artistic proies sion, a musical profession, a literary profession, a medical profession, and a legal profession - to mention no others - the term profession is too vague to be fought for. We may as well let down the bars and permit people to call themselves professional, for no better reason than that they choose in this way to appropriate whatever of social distinction may still cling to a term obviously abused. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

      Is Social Work a Profession?
    • L'utilità dell'inutile. Manifesto

      • 266 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
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      Dopo aver entusiasmato tantissimi lettori in diversi Paesi, aver calcato le scene teatrali in Francia e aver ispirato musicisti e numerosi artisti, il longseller di Nuccio Ordine sul valore necessario dei saperi considerati “inutili” ritorna in libreria con una nuova veste grafica che rinnova la collana di cui era stato apripista ideale nel 2013. Questo saggio brillante e originale dimostra che non è vero – neanche in tempo di crisi e di pandemia – che è utile solo ciò che produce profitto. Attraverso le riflessioni di grandi filosofi (Platone, Aristotele, Zhuang-zi, Pico della Mirandola, Montaigne, Bruno, Campanella, Bacone, Kant, Tocqueville, Newman, Poincaré, Heidegger, Bataille) e di grandi scrittori (Ovidio, Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Alberti, Ariosto, Moro, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Lessing, Leopardi, Hugo, Gautier, Dickens, Herzen, Baudelaire, Stevenson, Kakuzo Okakura, García Lorca, García Márquez, Ionesco, Calvino, Foster Wallace), Ordine mostra come l’ossessione del possesso e il culto dell’utilità finiscano per inaridire lo spirito, mettendo in pericolo non solo le scuole e le università, l’arte e la creatività, ma anche valori fondamentali come la dignitas hominis, l’amore e la verità. Abraham Flexner – nel suo affascinante saggio tradotto per la prima volta in italiano – ricorda che pure le scienze ci insegnano l’utilità dell’inutile. Eliminando la gratuità e l’inutile difficilmente l’Homo sapiens potrà rendere più umana l’umanità.

      L'utilità dell'inutile. Manifesto