The book explains the givens of the knowledge industry within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of a major portion of the left-right animosity of our day.
The book explains the givens of the knowledge industry within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of a major portion of the left-right animosity of our day.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bruce Fleming has taught at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the National University of Rwanda, and, for more than 30 years, at the US Naval Academy. He is the author most recently of Democracy's Achilles Heel: The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute, The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, What Does 'Art' Mean Now?, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor, Masculinity from the Inside, and Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Part I: The Problem Chapter 1: Academia's Science Envy Chapter 2: Meaning in Academia Part II: Inside Academia Chapter 3: Academia's Imperative to Expand Chapter 4: Metaphysical Sociology Chapter 5: Problems of Art History Chapter 6: Philosophy Isn't a Discipline, and It Doesn't Progress Chapter 7: Austen in the Classroom Part III: Outside Academia Chapter 8: The Basis of Knowledge Is Its Opposite Chapter 9: Knowledge Requires People Chapter 10: The Everyday Normal Chapter 11: What Do We Do Now? Works Cited Index
Acknowledgements Part I: The Problem Chapter 1: Academia's Science Envy Chapter 2: Meaning in Academia Part II: Inside Academia Chapter 3: Academia's Imperative to Expand Chapter 4: Metaphysical Sociology Chapter 5: Problems of Art History Chapter 6: Philosophy Isn't a Discipline, and It Doesn't Progress Chapter 7: Austen in the Classroom Part III: Outside Academia Chapter 8: The Basis of Knowledge Is Its Opposite Chapter 9: Knowledge Requires People Chapter 10: The Everyday Normal Chapter 11: What Do We Do Now? Works Cited Index
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