Professor Maxwell R. Bennett

For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding, and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist, Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney's history and shows how this university's search has benefitted society in manifold ways. The Search for Knowledge and Understanding demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, as Bennett crafts short but...

Universities have searched for truth over nearly a millennium. Maxwell Bennett recounts the history of this search during three of its most momentous periods in the 13th, 18th, and 20th centuries, which helped fashion the idea of a university. He concludes with a cautionary assessment of whether universities, given their present level of material support, can reliably continue to protect...