| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The moral collapse of the university/ Bruce Wilshire. |
| Reminder of title: |
professionalism, purity, and alienation / |
| Author: |
Wilshire, Bruce W. |
| Published: |
Albany :State University of New York Press, : c1990., |
| Description: |
xxv, 287 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
College teaching - United States. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=7835An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585063974 (electronic bk.) |