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Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University
Chad Wellmon
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Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; JNB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421419886
SKU
V9781421419886
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About Chad Wellmon
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.
Reviews for Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University
An important story, told by Wellmon... His exposition is deeply grounded in intellectual, rather than social, history.
Choice
Organizing Enlightenment is an intriguing book for readers with significant prior knowledge of educational and German history...this reviewer found the material on lexica and encyclopedias a fascinating new perspective.
History of Education Quarterly
The original analysis of select ... Read more
Choice
Organizing Enlightenment is an intriguing book for readers with significant prior knowledge of educational and German history...this reviewer found the material on lexica and encyclopedias a fascinating new perspective.
History of Education Quarterly
The original analysis of select ... Read more