The sociology of intellectual life : the career of the mind in and around the academy / Steve Fuller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuller, Steve.

Series:

Theory, culture & society.

Theory, culture & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 178 p.).

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title outlines a social theory of knowledge for the 21st century. Steve Fuller deals directly with a world in which it is no longer taken for granted that universities and academics are the best places and people to embody the life of the mind. While Fuller defends academic privilege, he takes very seriously the historic divergences between academics and intellectuals, attending especially to the different features of knowledge production that they value.

Contents:

1. The Place of Intellectual Life: The University

The University as an Institutional Solution to the Problem of Knowledge

The Alienability of Knowledge in Our So-called Knowledge Society

The Knowledge Society as Capitalism of the Third Order

Will the University Survive the Era of Knowledge Management?

Postmodernism as an Anti-university Movement

Regaining the University's Critical Edge by Historicizing the Curriculum

Affirmative Action as a Strategy for Redressing the Balance Between Research and Teaching

Academics Rediscover Their Soul: The Rebirth of Academic Freedom'

2. The Stuff of Intellectual Life: Philosophy

Epistemology as 'Always Already' Social Epistemology

From Social Epistemology to the Sociology of Philosophy: The Codification of Professional Prejudices?

Interlude: Seeds of an Alternative Sociology of Philosophy

Prolegomena to a Critical Sociology of Twentieth-century Anglophone Philosophy

Analytic Philosophy's Ambivalence Toward the Empirical Sciences

Professionalism as Differentiating American and British Philosophy

Conclusion: Anglophone Philosophy as a Victim of Its Own Success

3. The People of Intellectual Life: Intellectuals

Can Intellectuals Survive if the Academy Is a No-fool Zone?

How Intellectuals Became an Endangered Species in Our Times: The Trail of Psychologism

A Genealogy of Anti-intellectualism: From Invisible Hand to Social Contagion

Re-defining the Intellectual as an Agent of Distributive Justice

The Critique of Intellectuals in a Time of Pragmatist Captivity

Pierre Bourdieu: The Academic Sociologist as Public Intellectual

4. The Improvisational Nature of Intellectual Life

Academics Caught Between Plagiarism and Bullshit

Bullshit: A Disease Whose Cure Is Always Worse

The Scientific Method as a Search for the (Piled) Higher (and Deeper) Bullshit

Conclusion: How to Improvize on the World-historic Stage

Summary of the Argument.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781412928380

1412928389

9781446246252

1446246256

9781283879347

1283879344

9781849205238

184920523X

OCLC:

491363731