基本説明
Co-published with the Society for Research into Higher Education. Views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect.
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"For far too long, we have waited for a book that recorded the ideas of the modern university. Now, in Gerard Delanty's new book, we have it. Delanty has faithfully set out the views of the key thinkers and, in the process, has emerged with an idea of the university that is his. We are in his debt." Professor Ronald Barnett, University of London
"Gerard Delanty is one of the most productive and thought-provoking social theorists currently writing in the UK. He brings to his work a sophisticated and impressively cosmopolitan vision. Here he turns his attention to higher education, bringing incisive analysis and a surprising optimism as regards the future of the university. This is a book which will stimulate all thinking people - especially those trying to come to terms with mass higher education and its tribulations." Professor Frank Webster, University of Birmingham
"For too long social theory, the sociology of knowledge and studies in higher education have mutually ignored each other. Gerard Delanty, founding editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, was just the right person to bring them into dialogue. Indeed, 'dialogue' and 'communication' are his watchwords for revamping the institutional mission of the university." Professor Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
Drawing from current debates in social theory about the changing nature of knowledge, this book offers the most comprehensive sociological theory of the university that has yet appeared. The famous philosophical conceptions of the university from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed along with the major writings in modern social theory on the university, such as those of Weber, Parsons, Habermas, Gadamer, Lyotard and Bourdieu. In this far reaching contribution to the sociology of knowledge, Delanty views the university as a key institution of modernity and as the site where knowledge, culture and society interconnect. He assesses the question of the crisis of the university with respect to issues such as globalization, the information age, the nation state, academic capitalism, cultural politics and changing relationships between research and teaching. Arguing against the notion of the demise of the university, his argument is that in the knowledge society of today a new identity for the university is emerging based on communication and new conceptions of citizenship. It will be essential reading for those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university.
Contents
Introduction
challenging knowledge
Theoretical perspectives on knowledge and modernity
towards a sociology of knowledge
The university in the age of liberal modernity
between cosmopolitanism and nation state
The university in the age of liberal modernity
between cosmopolitanism and nation state
The university in organized modernity
capitalism, the state and citizenship
The transformative project
democracy, the counter-culture and communication
The institutionalization of critique
intellectuals, the public sphere and the university
Academic power and the limits of critique
Bourdieu on the university, power and knowledge
The university and the new production of knowledge
from the producer to the user
Globalization and academic capitalism
the new knowledge flows
The postmodern university
deconstructing knowledge and institutions
The new politics of knowledge
culture wars, identity and multiculturalism
Conclusion
knowledge, citizenship and reflexivity
References
Index.
