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In Pursuit of Knowledge - Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture (Hardcover)
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In Pursuit of Knowledge - Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture (Hardcover)
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Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on
the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are
engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are
intellectually responsible but of little interest to anyone but
specialists. In Pursuit of Knowledge offers an alternative: a
unique portrait of academic life that should appeal to both experts
and a general audience. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines,
including higher education, history, law, sociology, economics, and
literature, the book focuses on the ways in which the pursuit of
status has undermined the pursuit of knowledge. Deborah Rhode
argues that both individual scholars and institutions in higher
education are caught in an arms race of reputation. The result has
been to skew priorities in scholarship, erode commitments to
teaching, compromise efforts of public intellectuals, and impede
effectiveness in administration. The book offers several solutions
to counter these pervasive problems in our research institutions.
Rhode makes a case for increasing accountability and realigning
reward systems. She argues that what is needed is a greater sense
of responsibility among universities and their faculties to narrow
the gap between academic ideals and practices. In Pursuit of
Knowledge is meticulously researched and elegantly written. It is
also exceptionally entertaining in its use of quotations culled
from over a hundred academic novels, including works by Kingsley
Amis, Saul Bellow, David Lodge, and C.P. Snow.(For example, from
P.G. Wodehouse's The Girl in Blue, "The Agee womantold us for three
quarters of an hourhow she came to write her beastly book, when a
simple apology was all that was required.") The result is a highly
readable but also deeply reflective analysis of the academic
profession.
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