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Organizing Enlightenment : Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (366 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421416168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Organizing EnlightenmentDDC classification:
  • 378.43
LOC classification:
  • LA727 .W455 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science as Culture -- 2 The Fractured Empire of Erudition -- 3 Encyclopedia from Book to Practice -- 4 From Bibliography to Ethics -- 5 Kant's Critical Technology -- 6 The Enlightenment University and Too Many Books -- 7 The University in the Age of Print -- 8 Berlin, Humboldt, and the Research University -- 9 The Disciplinary Self and the Virtues of the Philologist -- Afterword: Too Many Links -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Science as Culture -- 2 The Fractured Empire of Erudition -- 3 Encyclopedia from Book to Practice -- 4 From Bibliography to Ethics -- 5 Kant's Critical Technology -- 6 The Enlightenment University and Too Many Books -- 7 The University in the Age of Print -- 8 Berlin, Humboldt, and the Research University -- 9 The Disciplinary Self and the Virtues of the Philologist -- Afterword: Too Many Links -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

In order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.

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