The Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation

Bruce Wilshire

Language: English

Published: Apr 2, 1990

Description:

Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Part One: The Academic Professional: Problems of Self-Knowledge and Education I. Alienation II. What is the Educating Act? III. Crisis of Authority and Identity: The Inevitability of Professionalism IV. The Professionalization of the University Part Two: Academic Professionalism and Identity: Rites of Purification and Exclusion V. A Specimen Case of Professionalizing a Field of Learning: Philosophy VI. Eccentricities and Distortions of Academic Professionalism VII. Academic Professionalism as a Veiled Purification Ritual VIII. Pollution Phenomena: John Dewey's Encounter with Body-Self Part Three: Reorganizing the University IX. Revolutionary Thought of the Early Twentieth Century: Reintegrating Self and World and a New Foundation for Humane Knowledge X. The Reactionary Response of Positivism: Cementing Purification, Professionalism Segmentation in the University XI. Recovering from Positivism and Reorganizing the University XII. Reclaiming the Vision of Education: Redefining Definition, Identity, Gender Epilogue Index