Challenging knowledge : the university in the knowledge society

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Delanty, Gerard

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Buckingham : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 2001

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9780335205790

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Universities and colleges -- Social aspects

Education, Higher -- Social aspects

Knowledge, Sociology of.

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The famous philosophical conceptions of the Open University from the Enlightenment to postmodern thought are discussed in this book 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 should appeal to those interested in changing relationships between modernity, knowledge, higher education and the future of the university.

Preface and Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Challenging Knowledge	p. 1
1 Knowledge and Cognition: The Sociology of Knowledge Reconsidered	p. 12
Rethinking the sociology of knowledge	p. 13
Cognitive shifts and the social theory of modernity	p. 17
The university and the transformation of knowledge	p. 22
2 The University in the Age of Liberal Modernity: Between Cosmopolitanism and Nation State	p. 26
The rise of the modern university	p. 27
Liberal modernity: the nineteenth century	p. 35
The decline of liberal modernity	p. 39
3 The University in Organized Modernity: Capitalism, the State and Citizenship	p. 44
The university and citizenship	p. 46
The Parsonian theory: the cognitive function of the university	p. 51
Social change and the university	p. 56
4 The Transformative Project: Democracy, the Counter-culture and Communication	p. 59
The crisis of organized modernity: culture and politics	p. 61
The new German debate on the university: Habermas, Gadamer and Schelsky	p. 64
The rise of student revolt: Marcuse, Touraine and Riesman	p. 70
5 The Institutionalization of Critique: Intellectuals, the Public Sphere and the University	p. 74
Mannheim and Gramsci on intellectuals and modernity	p. 75
Traditional intellectuals and conservative critique: from Benda to Bloom	p. 78
Gouldner on the New Class and universities	p. 79
In search of public intellectuals	p. 83
6 Academic Power and Cultural Capital: Bourdieu on Knowledge and the University	p. 88
Education as social reproduction	p. 89
The fields of power within the university	p. 93
Reflexivity, the scholastic fallacy and intellectuals	p. 97
7 The University and the New Production of Knowledge: From the Producer to the User	p. 101
The end of knowledge?	p. 103
The new manageralism	p. 106
The rise of the knowledge user	p. 108
The separation of teaching and research	p. 110
Beyond Mode 2 analysis	p. 112
8 Globalization and Academic Capitalism: The New Knowledge Flows	p. 115
Globalization, the state and the university	p. 116
Academic capitalism and the triple helix	p. 120
The reality of the virtual university?	p. 126
Cosmopolitanism versus globalization	p. 128
9 The Postmodern University: Deconstructing Knowledge and Institutions	p. 130
Postmodernism and knowledge	p. 131
Postmodern theories of the University	p. 133
The university in ruins?	p. 139
10 The New Politics of Knowledge: Culture Wars, Identity and Multiculturalism	p. 142
Culture wars and the university	p. 144
The turn to culture and theory	p. 147
Beyond instrumentalism and relativism	p. 150
Conclusion: Knowledge, Citizenship and Reflexivity	p. 152
References	p. 159
Index	p. 173
The Society for Research into Higher Education	p. 176

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