Christopher Newfield

Ivy and Industry

Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Christopher Newfield's application of the management model and metaphor to the academic scene leads him into what is by far the freshest and most nuanced argument on the corporatization of the university that I can think of."--Bruce Robbins, author of "Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 146mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332015
• ISBN-10: 0822332019
• Artikelnr.: 21916398

Autorenporträt

Christopher Newfield is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America and coeditor of Mapping Multiculturalism and After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Two Missions
1. Introduction 3
2. A Permanent Dependence 15
3. The Humanist Outcry 41
Part II. The Managerial Condition
4. The Rise of University Management 67
5. Babbitry and Meritocracy 91
6. Managerial Protection and Scientific Success 115
7. Grey Flannel Radicals 133
Part III. The Market Revival
8. The Industry-Science Alliance 167
9. Corporate Pleasure and Business Humanism 195
10. Epilogue: The Second Story 215
Notes 229
Acknowledgments 277
Index 279