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Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation

Moral Collapse of the University: Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation

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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

About the author

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Pub dateApr 2, 1990
ISBN-100791401979
ISBN-139780791401972
LanguageEnglish
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