Since its inception, the research university has been the central
institution of knowledge in the West. Today its intellectual
authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical
technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of
how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a
similarly fraught moment of cultural anxiety about revolutionary
technologies and their disruptive effects on established
institutions of knowledge. Drawing on the histories of science, the
university, and print, as well as media theory and philosophy, Chad
Wellmon explains how the research university and the ethic of
disciplinarity it created emerged as the final and most lasting
technology of the Enlightenment. Organizing Enlightenment reveals
higher education's story as one not only of the production of
knowledge but also of the formation of a particular type of person:
the disciplinary self. 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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