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1 online resource (662 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: charisma and rationalization -- pt. 1. Tradition, rationalization, charisma. On the dominion of the author and the legible -- The lecture catalog -- The lecture and the disputation -- The examination -- The research seminar -- The doctor of philosophy -- The appointment of a professor -- The library catalogue -- pt. 2. 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. |
| Summary |
Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university--which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--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. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University 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 conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- History -- 18th century.
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Education, Higher. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Education, Higher -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Universities and colleges -- History -- 18th century.
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Universities and colleges. |
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Universities and colleges -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clark, William, 1953- Academic charisma and the origins of the research university. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006 0226109216 9780226109213 (DLC) 2005015152 (OCoLC)60589071 |
| ISBN |
9780226109237 (electronic book) |
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0226109232 (electronic book) |
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1281959375 |
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9781281959379 |
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9780226109220 |
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0226109224 |
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