Harry Redner

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Knowledge Production

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as well as the values, priorities and agendas of the modern research university, this book argues that in spite of its wealth, power and success, the modern university, has lost its way, resulting in a depreciation of its value.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000885316
• Artikelnr.: 67633366

Autorenporträt

Harry Redner was Reader at Monash University. He also held endowed chairs at Darmstadt and Kassel Universities in Germany and visiting professorships at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Haifa University and the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He was the author of 18 books ranging across the natural and social sciences and the humanities, notably Beyond Civilization: Society, Culture and the Individual in the Age of Globalization, Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind and Politics, Ethics and Culture in our Time: A Post-civilizational Perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Literature and Criticism
revitalizing a dynamic relationship 2.History
the need for a new grand narrative 3.Sociology
the search for a common theoretical core 4.Economics
bridging the divide between scientific and socio
historical models 5.From the University to the Multiversity
and beyond 6.Academia and Publishing
a fraught relationship