Academic charisma and the origins of the research university / William Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, William, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--History--18th century.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--History--19th century.

Universities and colleges--History--18th century.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (669 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university-which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Charisma and Rationalization

2. The Lecture Catalogue

3. The Lecture and the Disputation

4. The Examination

5. The Research Seminar

6. The Doctor of Philosophy

7. The Appointment of a Professor

8. The Library Catalogue

9. Academic Babble and Ministerial Machinations

10. Ministerial Hearing and Academic Commodification

11. Academic Voices and the Ghost in the Machine

12. The Research University and Beyond

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3. Philology-Pedagogy Academic Seminars, Societies, and Institutes

Appendix 4. Dissertationes Eruditorum

Appendix 5. Doctoral Graduates and Dissertations in Arts and Philosophy Faculties

Appendix 6. List of Universities in the German Cultural Space

Notes

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-623) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959371

9781281959379

1281959375

9780226109237

0226109232

OCLC:

310981564