Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession
and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower -
the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to
preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of
personal knowledge, or renounce the Music and imitate a technician?
Having come to the end of his own scholarly career, W. David Shaw
felt out of place in the technological realm academia has become -
where scholars increasingly model their work on that of scientists
rather than the classical thinkers of the past, and where original
ideas often only alienate the scholar, rather than enrich. Thus,
Babel and the Ivory Tower is as much a eulogy as an elegy. Shaw
reflects on the changes that have taken place in the academic
sphere while philosophically enlarging our stock of fresh ideas
about the competing claims of maps and models and open and closed
capacities in higher learning. This is a fascinating and
illuminating discussion of liberal and contemplative scholarship
and adds significantly to the growing body of contemporary
philosophical literature.
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