Bücher von Bruce Wilshire

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

This book, originally published by Capricorn Books in 1968, contains writings by the chief exponents of romanticism and the evolutionary theory in its various applications:

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