Bruce Fleming

Academia versus the World Outside (eBook, ePUB)

Institutionalized Knowledge and Its Discontents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040116074
• Artikelnr.: 72246015

Autorenporträt

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