Organizing Enlightenment : information overload and the invention of the modern research university...
Organizing Enlightenment : information overload and the invention of the modern research university...
Organizing Enlightenment : information overload and the invention of the modern research university / Chad Wellmon.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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G 2015/3801
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English
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ix, 353 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Science as culture -- The fractured empire of erudition -- Encyclopedia from book to practice -- From bibliography to ethics -- Kant's critical technology -- The Enlightenment university and too many books -- The university in the age of print -- Berlin, Humboldt, and the research university -- The...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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Maryland
Date Published
2015.
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"Since its inception, the research university has been the central institution of knowledge in the West. Today, however, its intellectual authority is being challenged on many fronts, above all by radical technological change. Organizing Enlightenment tells the story of how the university emerged in the early nineteenth century at a similarly fraug...
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Organizing Enlightenment : information overload and the invention of the modern research university / Chad Wellmon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/3801
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74VKRayv03gM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRayv03gM
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9781421416151 (hardback)
1421416158 (hardcover)
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378.43
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991023147299702626
