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Wellmon

Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1615-1
Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
Erscheinungstermin: 20.04.2015
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The Enlightenment-era concerns that gave rise to the modern research university can illuminate contemporary debates about knowledge in the digital age.

Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary technologies and their disruptive effects on established institutions of knowledge.

Drawing on the histories of science, the university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting technology of the Enlightenment. Organizing Enlightenment reveals higher education’s story as one not only of the production of knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person: the disciplinary self. In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781421416151
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1615-1
  • Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
  • Erscheinungstermin: 20.04.2015
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2015
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 667 g
  • Seiten: 368
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 241 x 30 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Chad Wellmon is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Science as Culture
2. The Fractured Empire of Erudition
3. Encyclopedia from Book to Practice
4. From Bibliography to Ethics
5. Kant's Critical Technology
6. The Enlightenment University and Too Many Books
7. The University in the Age of Print
8. Berlin, Humboldt, and the Research University
9. The Disciplinary Self and the Virtues of the Philologist
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index