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Author Clark, William, 1953-

Title Academic charisma and the origins of the research university / William Clark
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (662 pages) : illustrations
Contents Prologue: charisma and rationalization -- pt. 1. Tradition, rationalization, charisma. On the dominion of the author and the legible -- The lecture catalog -- The lecture and the disputation -- The examination -- The research seminar -- The doctor of philosophy -- The appointment of a professor -- The library catalogue -- pt. 2. Narrative, conversation, reputation: on the ineluctability of the voice and the oral -- Academic babble and ministerial machinations -- Ministerial hearing and academic commodification -- Academic voices and the ghost in the machine -- Epilogue: the research university and beyond
Summary Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university--which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalogue, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish," and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Education, Higher -- History -- 18th century
Education, Higher -- History -- 19th century
Universities and colleges -- History -- 18th century
Universities and colleges -- History -- 19th century
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
Universities and colleges
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226109237
0226109232
9781281959379
1281959375
9780226109213
0226109216