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Keywords; - For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c. (Paperback)
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Keywords; - For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c. (Paperback)
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Loot Price R394
Discovery Miles 3 940
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An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture The
university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the
magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential
institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines
of social transformation and economic progress, enclosed gardens of
ennobling reflection and creation, universities encompass the
wisdom of the past and the hope of the future. Or do they? This
critical glossary-written by a group of Princeton graduate students
and faculty-defines fifty-eight terms common to academic life in a
style that will prick both egos and consciences. From "academia" to
"vocation," "canon" to "peer review," "discipline" to
"methodology," the book scrutinizes the often stultifying
structures of modern disciplinary life, calls out a slavish
devotion to "knowledge production" as the enemy of thought, and
even dissects the notion of "academic excellence." Feisty and
darkly funny, passionate and deeply insightful, this book raises
hard questions about teaching, research, theory, practice, and
academic labor. The result is a must-read dispatch from today's
academic trenches-one that is sure to provoke discussion and
debate.
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