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The moral collapse of the university : professionalism, purity, and alienation / Bruce Wilshire.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in philosophy of educationPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1990.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585063974
  • 9780585063973
  • 0791401960
  • 9780791401965
  • 0791401979
  • 9780791401972
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral collapse of the university.DDC classification:
  • 378.73 20
LOC classification:
  • LA227.3 .W53 1990eb
NLM classification:
  • LA 227.3 W53 1990
Other classification:
  • DV 2850
  • MS 7375
Online resources:
Contents:
Alienation -- What is the educating act? -- Crisis of authority and identity : the inevitability of professionalism -- The professionalization of the university -- A specimen case of professionalizing a field of learning : philosophy -- Eccentricities and distortions of academic professionalism -- Academic professionalism as a veiled purification ritual -- Pollution phenomena : John Dewey's encounter with body-self -- Revolutionary thought of the early twentieth century : reintegrating self and world and a new foundation for humane knowledge -- The reactionary response of positivism : cementing purification, professionalism, segmentation in the university -- Recovering from positivism and reorganizing the university -- Reclaiming the vision of education : redefining definition, identity, gender.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alienation -- What is the educating act? -- Crisis of authority and identity : the inevitability of professionalism -- The professionalization of the university -- A specimen case of professionalizing a field of learning : philosophy -- Eccentricities and distortions of academic professionalism -- Academic professionalism as a veiled purification ritual -- Pollution phenomena : John Dewey's encounter with body-self -- Revolutionary thought of the early twentieth century : reintegrating self and world and a new foundation for humane knowledge -- The reactionary response of positivism : cementing purification, professionalism, segmentation in the university -- Recovering from positivism and reorganizing the university -- Reclaiming the vision of education : redefining definition, identity, gender.

Print version record.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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