Organizing enlightenment : information overload and the invention of the modern research university
"Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today, however, its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emer...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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| Schlagworte: | Universities and colleges Education, Higher Research Enlightenment Deutschland Universität Wissensorganisation Aufklärung Buchmarkt Geschichte |
| Umfang: | ix, 353 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Science as cultureThe fractured empire of erudition
- Encyclopedia from book to practice
- From bibliography to ethics
- Kant's critical technology
- The Enlightenment university and too many books
- The university in the age of print
- Berlin, Humboldt, and the research university
- The disciplinary self and the virtues of the philologist
- Afterword : too many links.
- Science as cultureThe fractured empire of erudition
- Encyclopedia from book to practice
- From bibliography to ethics
- Kant's critical technology
- The Enlightenment university and too many books
- The university in the age of print
- Berlin, Humboldt, and the research university
- The disciplinary self and the virtues of the philologist
- Afterword : too many links