Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University

Name: Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University
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ISBN: 9780226109220

ISBN-10: 0226109224

ISBN-13: 9780226109220

Edition: 2007

Authors: William Clark

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Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University reconsiders the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. Drawing on an astonishing wealth of research, he investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 668
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Prologue



Charisma and Rationalization



Tradition, Rationalization, Charisma: On the Dominion of the Author and the Legible



The Lecture Catalogue



The Lecture and the Disputation



The Examination



The Research Seminar



The Doctor of Philosophy



The Appointment of a Professor



The Library Catalogue



Narrative, Conversation, Reputation: On the Ineluctability of the Voice and the Oral



Academic Babble and Ministerial Machinations



Ministerial Hearing and Academic Commodification



Academic Voices and the Ghost in the Machine


Epilogue



The Research University and Beyond




















Notes


Abbreviations


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgements


Index