The Degradation of the Academic Dogma
This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves. Over the centuries they earned the respect of society by attempting to remain faithful to what he terms the academic dogma, the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. The measure of a university's greatness and of the stature of an individual scholar was determined not by the immediate usefulness of the work done, but by how much it contributed to scholarship, learning, and teaching.American universities abandoned this ideal, Nisbet charges, after World War II, welcoming onto their campuses ac…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-30495-5
- EAN: 9781351304955
- Produktnummer: 27324086
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 14'341 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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