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14 Gilbert Gadoffre

Institutionalising cultural reproduction

Abstract

Gilbert Gadoffre’s life encompassed a wartime role as Resistance hero and his postwar reinvention as a champion of civilised transnational intellectual exchange at the Institut Collégial Européen, which he founded in 1947. But his most enduring institutional connection, building on a youthful anglophilia, was with the University of Manchester, as lecturer (1938–40), senior lecturer (1954–63) and professor (1966–78). The contribution will focus on his ideas about the dissemination of culture in diverse institutional contexts – the French Resistance, the Institut Collégial, and Manchester – and consider the validity of his conviction that the humanism articulated in France during the reign of François I (1494–1547) should be the model for a modern, universal humanism.

Abstract

Gilbert Gadoffre’s life encompassed a wartime role as Resistance hero and his postwar reinvention as a champion of civilised transnational intellectual exchange at the Institut Collégial Européen, which he founded in 1947. But his most enduring institutional connection, building on a youthful anglophilia, was with the University of Manchester, as lecturer (1938–40), senior lecturer (1954–63) and professor (1966–78). The contribution will focus on his ideas about the dissemination of culture in diverse institutional contexts – the French Resistance, the Institut Collégial, and Manchester – and consider the validity of his conviction that the humanism articulated in France during the reign of François I (1494–1547) should be the model for a modern, universal humanism.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations viii
  4. Contributors xii
  5. Acknowledgements xvi
  6. Abbreviations xvii
  7. Introduction 1
  8. I 17
  9. Academy and community in the nineteenth-century city 19
  10. 1 The mechanics’ institutes and the spread of ‘useful knowledge’ 23
  11. Vignette 1 39
  12. 2 Heidelberg in Cottonopolis 43
  13. 3 James Bryce’s Manchester 60
  14. 4 Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library 77
  15. 5 William Boyd Dawkins 94
  16. 6 Ancoats and lab coats 110
  17. 7 ‘In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers’ 126
  18. II 151
  19. Civic university and civic decline 153
  20. Vignette 2 159
  21. 8 Three Zionists 165
  22. 9 Shared friendship and divided politics 182
  23. Vignette 3 198
  24. 10 W. Arthur Lewis and economic development 202
  25. 11 Tools versus minds 222
  26. 12 Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity 241
  27. Vignette 4 255
  28. 13 Dorothy Emmet 260
  29. 14 Gilbert Gadoffre 279
  30. III 297
  31. The University in the post-industrial city 299
  32. 15 Making an impact 303
  33. 16 Post-crash economics 319
  34. 17 Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role – the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 334
  35. Epilogue 353
  36. Select bibliography 361
  37. Index 363
  38. Plates 375
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526176332.00029

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations viii
  4. Contributors xii
  5. Acknowledgements xvi
  6. Abbreviations xvii
  7. Introduction 1
  8. I 17
  9. Academy and community in the nineteenth-century city 19
  10. 1 The mechanics’ institutes and the spread of ‘useful knowledge’ 23
  11. Vignette 1 39
  12. 2 Heidelberg in Cottonopolis 43
  13. 3 James Bryce’s Manchester 60
  14. 4 Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library 77
  15. 5 William Boyd Dawkins 94
  16. 6 Ancoats and lab coats 110
  17. 7 ‘In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers’ 126
  18. II 151
  19. Civic university and civic decline 153
  20. Vignette 2 159
  21. 8 Three Zionists 165
  22. 9 Shared friendship and divided politics 182
  23. Vignette 3 198
  24. 10 W. Arthur Lewis and economic development 202
  25. 11 Tools versus minds 222
  26. 12 Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity 241
  27. Vignette 4 255
  28. 13 Dorothy Emmet 260
  29. 14 Gilbert Gadoffre 279
  30. III 297
  31. The University in the post-industrial city 299
  32. 15 Making an impact 303
  33. 16 Post-crash economics 319
  34. 17 Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role – the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 334
  35. Epilogue 353
  36. Select bibliography 361
  37. Index 363
  38. Plates 375
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