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Harvard University Press
Overview
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. George Andreou has served as the press's director since 2017. Sharmila Sen has served as the editorial director since 2019.
The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018.
Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty.
The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009.
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Examples of this are to be found in nearly all schools to-day which aim to be progressive. Many school systems all over the country have tried having a printing press operated by pupils with great success. The presses were installed not to teach the pupils the different processes in the trade, but so that the children might themselves print some of the pamphlets, posters, or other papers that any school is…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
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It will do its work without state help in money or honours, free from the spirit of the age as well as from any fear of it; being in fact the judge, as Schopenhauer was, of the so-called culture surrounding it. And in this way the philosopher can also be useful to the university, by refusing to be a part of it, but criticising it from afar. Distance will lend dignity.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thoughts Out of Season, Part II
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The object was primarily culture, secondarily discipline. It represented much more than the present grammar school. It was the liberal element in the college, which, extending downward, grew into the academy and the high school. Thus the secondary school is still in part just a lower college (having an even higher curriculum than the college of a few centuries ago) or a preparatory department to a college, and in…
John Dewey, The school and society
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Philosophers who discussed Harvard University Press
- Edmund Burke
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Yale University Press
- Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Avicenna
- Frederick C. Beiser
- John Locke
- John Dewey
- Lucian
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- John McDowell
- Thomas Aquinas
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Walter Benjamin
- Evan Thompson
- Jews
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Ronald Dworkin
- Thales of Miletus
- Crispin Wright
- Michael Dummett
- Aristotle
- Umberto Eco
Related ideas
- E. O. Wilson
- Yale University Press
- John Rawls
- Emily Dickinson
- Harvard University
- Walter Benjamin
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Carol Gilligan
- Academic publishing
- Martha Nussbaum
- United States
- Amartya Sen
- Wiley (publisher)
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Loeb Classical Library
- MIT Press
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.