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Knowledge and power in higher education : a reader / edited by Richard Harvey Brown and J. Daniel Schubert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Scientism--Political aspects.
- Scientism.
- Higher education and state.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 207 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- This volume offers a close look at one of the most pressing topics in academia today -- the relationship between academic knowledge and political power. Essays address a variety of important questions and issues: -- The link between politics and science-- The role of the academy in contemporary society-- How institutional dynamics affect the relation between political power and knowledge-- The implementation of political correctness on college campuses-- The poetics and politics of academic texts.
- Contents:
- Academic knowledge and political power in late capitalist societies / Richard Harvey Brown and J. Daniel Schubert
- Democracy and capitalism in the academy: the commercialization of American higher education / Richard Harvey Brown and Remi Clignet
- Science as a vocation: circa 2000 / Steven Fuller
- Intellectual discourse in the academy and society: interpretation, legitimation, and the rise of management talk / Karl-Michael Brunner, Johanna Hofbauer, and Gerald Prabitz
- Leisure and the intellectuals: the end of the legislator? / Hans Mommaas
- Academy and asylum: power, knowledge, and mental disability / John P. Radford
- The ivory commonwealth: higher education beyond pure commerce / Manfred Stanley
- Toward a relegitimation of higher education: reinvigorating the humanities and social sciences / Grahame F. Thompson
- Objectivity, relativism, and the public authority of the scholar / David R. Shumway
- The erotics of academic conversation: love, ethics, and reason in scholarly and civic discourse / Richard Harvey Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807739065
- 0807739057
- OCLC:
- 42061180
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